TY - BOOK AU - Rosenthal,Debra J. TI - Race mixture in nineteenth-century U.S. and spanish american fictions: gender, culture, and nation building SN - 0807855642 AV - PS 374 R815r 2004 U1 - 813/.3093556 PY - 2004/// CY - Chapel Hill, N.C. PB - The University of North Carolina Press KW - American fiction KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Miscegenation in literature KW - Spanish American fiction KW - Literature, Comparative KW - American and Spanish KW - Spanish American and American KW - Racially mixed people in literature KW - Race relations in literature KW - Slavery in literature KW - Racism in literature KW - Race in literature KW - Literatura de ficción estadounidense KW - Historia y crítica KW - Primera Jornada de Catalogacion KW - Interracial sexual mixing KW - Cultural mixing N2 - Race mixture has played a formative role in the history of the Americas, from the western expansion of the United States to the political consolidation ofLatin America. This text examines 19th-century authors in the United States and Spanish America who struggled to give voice to contemporary dilemmas about interracial sexual and cultural mixing ER -