Uses work from African-American studies to rethink the status of race in Victorian England.

The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from the mess can produce a seemingly satisfying self-rig

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Highlights the interplay of race, literature, and nation-building in U.S. history

In Pure, Linda Kay Klein uses a potent combination of journalism, cultural commentary, and memoir to take us “inside religious purity culture as only one who