Table of Contents:
  • What Edith Wharton teaches about the defense of affirmative action
  • Mark Twain and the secret joys of antiracist pedagogy
  • Gender, liberalism, and racial geometry
  • Awakened White femininity and a shaping Mexicanist presence
  • Trafficking in liberal masculinities
  • American innocence vs. liberal guilt
  • "A good fellow wronged" : Christopher Newman and the feeling of American exceptionalism
  • Liberal guilt and the age of innocence.