CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Americanizing Variety -- I. THE IDEOLOGICAL FORMATION OF PLURALISM -- 1. William James and the Modern Federal Republic -- 2. Identity Culture and Cosmopolitanism -- II. THE AESTHETICS OF DIVERSITY -- 3. The Uneven Development of American Regionalism -- 4. The Urban Picturesque and Americanization -- III. HETEROGENEOUS UNIONS -- 5. Biracial Fictions and the Mendelist Allegory -- 6. East Meets West at the World's Parliament of Religions -- Afterword: In Defense of Partiality -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index.