This study addresses the ways race has both helped and hindered Americans in determining national identity. Contributors consider race and American nationalism from a variety of historical and disciplinary vantage points. Beginning with the aftermath of the Civil War and unfolding chronologically though to the present, the essays examine a multitide of different groups - Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Puerto Ricans, African Americans, whites, Jews, Irish Americans, German Americans - by examining race and nationlaism represented in public memorials, photography, film, classic and...

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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