Emory University

Graduate Student, English

Thesis Title: “One and one make one”: Recalculating Race and the American Family in American Literature and Culture, 1830-1915

Benjamin Reiss

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Nothing is black and white when it comes to interracial families. My dissertation examines new ways of imagining families and individuals, even within the seemingly rigid racial hierarchies of nineteenth-century America. It investigates various ways that certain white Americans  imagined black-white families from 1830-1915. I argue that these families create the conditions for racial ambiguity and highlight the instability of individual identities. 

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