Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Beyond Ethnicity -- The Roots of Ethnicity -- Are Yankees Ethnic? -- We Are Not like Them -- I Am Absolutely Other -- The Content of Ethnicity -- Race and Ethnicity -- The Limits of Ethnicity -- 2. Typology and Ethnogenesis -- "Go Down Moses": Typology and Chosen Peoplehood -- Imitation of Christ -- How Puritanism Shaped American Ethnicity -- Ethnogenesis: The Naturalization of Group Emergence -- "One Blood": Acts and Shadows -- 3. Melting Pots -- Just a Four-Act Play -- Intermarriage and Immigrant Fidelity -- Crevecoeur, Pocahontas, and Fountain of Youth -- The Biblical "New Man": The Melting Pot as an Antitype -- Universal Regeneration -- Genetics of Salvation -- American Alchemy and the Melting Pot -- Melting Pots before and after Zangwill -- Other Melting Pots -- 4. Romantic Love, Arranged Marriage, and Indian Melancholy -- The Contrast and "Indian" Plays -- Romantic Love versus Arranged Marriage -- With the Consent of the Governor -- Indian Melancholy -- Curses and Blessings -- Fixtures -- Conclusion -- Interlude: From Indian to Urban -- Ethnic Comedy and the Burlesque -- The Tradition of the Mysteries -- Emil Klauprecht's Urban Mysteries -- 5. Some Tales of Consent and Descent -- Consent and Volitional Allegiance -- Wives of Youth: Mothers and Brides -- "Bluish-American Writing?" -- The Ideal and the Real -- Love and Kinship -- Old Self, New Self: Practical Men by Visionary Americans -- 6. The Ethics of Wholesome Provincialism -- The Mysteries of Un-Region and Un-Ethnic Group -- Josiah Royce and the Ethics of Wholesome Provincialism -- Kallen, Bourne, and DuBois -- The Problem of Cultural Dominance -- The "Real" Ludwig Lewisohn: American Identities of a German Jewish Immigrant to the South -- 7. First Generation, Second Generation, Third Generation . . . : The Cultural Construction of Descent.

First, Second, Third . . . : Gradual Degeneracy? -- The Third Generation as Redemption: Hansen's "Law" Revisited -- Generations Lost to the Pied Piper: Community-building Jeremiads -- Intermarriage and "Half-Breeds" -- Revolutionary Genealogy and Fear of Frankensteins -- We Are All Third Generation: A Cultural Grandfather Complex? -- 8. Ethnicity and Literary Form -- Ethnic Encyclopedias, American Odysseys -- What Is Ethnic Writing? -- Ethnic Modernism and Double Audience -- Washingtonian and Mosaic Modernism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.