Introduction John Ernest; Part I. Foundations: 1. Tracing Race Travis Foster; 2. Racial Management and Technologies of Care Malini Johar Schueller; Part II. Backgrounds: 3. Still looking for the Meaning of Whiteness in American Literature Valerie Babb; 4. From Plymouth Rock to Standing Rock: Hospitality, Settler Colonialism, and 400 Years of Indigenous Literary Resistance Drew Lopenzina; 5. Racing Latinidad Renee Hudson; 6. African American Literature's One Long Memory Chris Freeburg; 7. Race and the Mythos of Model Minority in Asian American Literature Swati Rana; Part III. The Dynamics of Race and Literary Dynamics: 8. 'Dramatic Race': Democratic Lessons of Twenty-First Century African American Drama Frank Obenland; 9. Beyond Humanization: Decolonization, Relationality, and Twenty-First Century Indigenous Literatures René Dietrich; 10. Shades of Whiteness and the Enigma of Race: Racial In-Betweenness and American Literature Mita Banerjee; 11. There is Here: Immigration Law and the Literature of Belonging Jeannie Pfaelzer; Part IV. Rethinking American Literature: 12. Race, Revision, and William Wells Brown's Miralda Brigitte Fielder; 13. 'Here's to Chicanos in the Middle Class!': Culture, Class, and The Limits of Chicano Literary Activism José Antonio Arellano; 14. Pulping the Racial Imagination Kinohi Nishikawa; 15. Recognition, Urban NDN Style: The Social Poetics of Pre-1980s Intertribal Newspapers Siobhan Senier; Part V. Case Studies: 16. Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Question of Race Claire Parfait; 17. The Legacy of Toni Morrison: Black Writers, Invisibility and Intimacy Stephanie Li; Suggested Readings.