Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing Region in the New Century -- Part I: "Is New York Such a Labyrinth?": Street Life and Amalgamation in Wharton's and Glasgow's City -- 1. Men of the Mob and "Fascinatingly American" Women -- 2. "'Et Que Cétait comme dans Le Livre'": Wharton, the Harlem Renaissance, and All That Jazz -- Part II: "Virginia Is Not Dead but Sleepeth": Segregation and the "Family Black and White" in Glasgow's and Cather's South -- 3. Family Reunion: Slavery as Usable Past -- 4. A House Divided: The Interracial Family and the White Supremacist Community -- Part III: "Fortunate Country": Old Immigrants and New Women in Cather's and Wharton's West -- 5. How the West Was Whitened -- 6. New Women and the World of Business -- Conclusion: "Always, Everywhere, Inferior" -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.