The Grammar of Good Intentions : Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Toward a Cultural History of Good Intentions -- CHAPTER ONE. Benevolent Violence: Indian Removal and the Contest of National Character -- CHAPTER TWO. Misgivings: Duplicity and Need in Melville's Late Fiction -- CHAPTER THREE. The Racial Polities of Self-Reliance -- CHAPTER FOUR. Pedagogies of Emancipation -- CHAPTER FIVE. Charity Begins at Home: Stowe's Antislavery Novels and the Forms of Benevolent Citizenship -- CHAPTER SIX . "Save Us from Our Friends": Free African Americans and the Culture of Benevolence -- EPILOGUE. The Afterlife of Benevolent Citizenship -- Notes -- Index

Between the lines : South Asians and postcoloniality

Asian American history and culture

Asian American history and culture.

Observing ourselves among others : interview with Meena Alexander ; Pedagogical alternatives : issues in postcolonial studies : interview with Gauri Viswanathan ; Transnationality and multiculturalist ideology : interview with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak / African Americans and the new immigrants / Life at the margins : in the thick of multiplicity / Mullahs, sex, and bureaucrats : Pakistan's confrontations with the modern world / Coming to terms with the "postcolonial" / Explosion of difference : the margins of perception in Sammy and Rosie get laid / Emigrants twice displaced : race, color, and identity in Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala / From ritual drama to national prime time : Mahabharata, India's televisual obsession / Television, politics, and the epic heroine : case study, Sita / Replacing the colonial gaze : gender as strategy in Salman Rushdie's fiction / Style is (not) the woman : Sara Suleri's Meatless days / Redefining the postcolonial female self : women in Anita Desai's Clear light of day / "Luminous Brahmin children must be saved" : imperialist ideologies, "postcolonial" histories in Bharati Mukherjee's The tiger's daughter / Troubled past : literature of severing and the viewer/viewed dialectic / Jane Austen in Meerut, India / Border crossings : retrieval and erasure of the self as other / I see the glass as half full

Goodbye, Sweetwater : new & selected stories

Ark of bones -- Echo tree -- A boll of roses -- Double nigger -- A Harlem game -- Will the circle be unbroken? -- Strike and fade -- Fon.

Prologue -- Fever -- Ark -- The white horse -- Wandering in the wilderness.

The marchers -- Harlem -- The university of man -- Rope of wind -- Devil bird -- The distributors -- Thrust counter thrust -- Six days you shall labor -- The voice.

Rain god -- Thalia -- Goodbye, Sweetwater.

The complete stories

Short stories

John Redding goes to sea -- Drenched in light -- Spunk -- Magnolia flower -- Muttsy -- Possum or Pig? -- The Eatonville anthology -- Sweat -- The gilded six-bits -- Mother Catherine -- Uncle Monday -- The fire and the cloud -- Cock Robin Beale Street -- Story in Harlem slang -- High John De Conquer -- Hurricane -- The conscience of the court -- Escape from Pharaoh -- The tablets of the law -- Black death -- The bone of contention -- Book of Harlem -- Harlem slanguage -- Now you cookin' with gas -- The seventh veil -- The woman in Gaul.

Zeely.

Come a stranger

Tillerman cycle ;

Like sisters on the homefront

If Beale Street could talk.

Addy's wedding quilt

The American girls collection.

The American girls collection, Addy.

A band of angels : a story inspired by the Jubilee Singers

Happy birthday, Addy! : a springtime story

The American girls collection

American girls collection.

Light it up