{"id":28884,"date":"2013-02-19T02:25:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T02:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=28884"},"modified":"2014-11-12T04:11:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-12T04:11:27","slug":"romance-of-race-reveals-rich-cultural-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=28884","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Romance of Race&#8217; reveals rich cultural history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgsu.edu\/news\/2013\/02\/romance-of-race-reveals-rich-cultural-history.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Romance of Race&#8217; reveals rich cultural history<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgsu.edu\/news.html\" target=\"_blank\">BGSU News<\/a><br \/>\nBowling Green, Ohio<br \/>\nThursday, 2013-02-14<\/p>\n<p>A new book by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgsu.edu\/departments\/english\/faculty\/page32735.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Jolie Sheffer<\/a> is further confirmation that one should never doubt the power of the pen. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=25542\" target=\"_blank\">The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1890-1930<\/a>,&#8221; published in January by Rutgers University Press, explains the role of minority women writers and reformers in the creation of modern American multiculturalism.<\/p>\n<p>Like their male counterparts <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Charles_Dickens\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Dickens<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victor_Hugo\" target=\"_blank\">Victor Hugo<\/a> in Europe, these authors provided their largely middle-class, female readers an intimate and sympathetic look at people with whose lives they were otherwise unfamiliar. Through stories of romances between white men and minority women told in human terms, authors such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maria_Cristina_Mena\" target=\"_blank\">Mar\u00eda Cristina Mena<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mourning_Dove_(author)\" target=\"_blank\">Mourning Dove<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winnifred_Eaton\" target=\"_blank\">Onoto Watanna<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pauline_Hopkins\" target=\"_blank\">Pauline Hopkins<\/a> created a vision of the United States as a mixed-race, even incestuous nation, says Sheffer, English and American culture studies&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgsu.edu\/news\/2013\/02\/romance-of-race-reveals-rich-cultural-history.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Romance of Race&#8217; reveals rich cultural history BGSU News Bowling Green, Ohio Thursday, 2013-02-14 A new book by Dr. Jolie Sheffer is further confirmation that one should never doubt the power of the pen. &#8220;The Romance of Race: Incest, Miscegenation, and Multiculturalism in the United States, 1890-1930,&#8221; published in January by Rutgers University Press, explains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1196,8,20,25],"tags":[18414,12099,12100],"class_list":["post-28884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","category-women","tag-bgsu-news","tag-jolie-a-sheffer","tag-jolie-sheffer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}