Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: working relations and racial desire
- 1 Dressing down the First Lady: Elizabeth Keckley's Behind The Scenes, Or Thirty Years A Slave And Four Years In The White House
- 2 Off-color patients in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy and W. D. Howells's An Imperative Duty
- 3 “Alien hands” in Kate Chopin's The Awakening
- 4 “For blood that is not yours”: Langston Hughes and the art of patronage
- Epilogue: “co-workers in the kingdom of culture”
- Notes
- Index
List of illustrations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: working relations and racial desire
- 1 Dressing down the First Lady: Elizabeth Keckley's Behind The Scenes, Or Thirty Years A Slave And Four Years In The White House
- 2 Off-color patients in Frances E. W. Harper's Iola Leroy and W. D. Howells's An Imperative Duty
- 3 “Alien hands” in Kate Chopin's The Awakening
- 4 “For blood that is not yours”: Langston Hughes and the art of patronage
- Epilogue: “co-workers in the kingdom of culture”
- Notes
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003