Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction, by Monika Kaup and Debra J. Rosenthal -- I: MIXED-BLOOD EPISTEMOLOGIES -- Chapter 1: CAN RABBITS HAVE INTERRACIAL SEX?, by Werner Sollors -- Chapter 2: WHO CAN TELL? The Blanks in Villaverde, by Doris Sommer -- Chapter 3: PHANTASMATIC BRAZIL: Nella Larsen's Passing, American Literary Imagination, and Racial Utopianism, by Zita C. Nunes -- II: MÉTISSAGE AND COUNTERDISCOURSE -- Chapter 4: NARRATING THE AMERICAS: Transcolonial Métissage and Maryse Condé's La Migration des coeurs, by Françoise Lionnet -- Chapter 5: CRÉOLITÉ OR AMBIGUITY?, by Michèle Praeger -- III: INDIGENIZATION, MISCEGENATION, AND NATIONALISM -- Chapter 6: GENDER AND MESTIZAJE IN THE ANDES, by Priscilla Archibald -- Chapter 7: RACE MIXTURE AND THE REPRESENTATION OF INDIANS IN THE U. S. AND THE ANDES: Cumandá, Aves sin nido, The Last of the Mohicans, and Ramona, by Debra J. Rosenthal -- Chapter 8: THE SQUATTER , THE DON, AND THE GRANDISSIMES IN OUR AMERICA, by Susan Gillman -- IV: HYBRID HYBRIDITY -- Chapter 9: CHICANO ETHNICITY, CULTURAL HYBRIDITY, AND THE MESTIZO VOICE, by Rafael Pérez-Torres -- Chapter 10: CONSTITUTING HYBRIDITY AS HYBRID: Métis Canadian and Mexican American Formations, by Monika Kaup -- V: SITES OF MEMORY IN MIXED-RACE AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Chapter 11: LIVING ON THE RIVER, by Rolando Hinojosa-Smith -- Chapter 12: THE SYLLOGISTIC MIXEDBLOOD: How Roland Barthes Saved Me from the indians, by Louis Owens -- Chapter 13: FROM BLOOD TO CULTURE: Miscegenation as Metaphor for the Americas, by Earl E. Fitz -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.