Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. MIXED-BLOOD EPISTEMOLOGIES

Can Rabbits Have Interracial Sex?

Werner Sollors

Who Can Tell? The Blanks in Villaverde

Doris Sommer

Phantasmatic Brazil: Nella Larsen's Passing, American Literary Imagination, and Racial Utopianism

Zita C. Nunes

II. METISSAGE AND COUNTERDISCOURSE

Narrating the Americas: Transcolonial Metissage and Maryse Conde's La Migration des coeurs

Francoise Lionnet

Creolite or Ambiguity?

Michele Praeger

III. INDIGENIZATION, MISCEGENATION, AND NATIONALISM

Gender and Mestizaje in the Andes

Priscilla Archibald

Race Mixture and the Representation of Indians in the U.S. and the Andes: Cumanda, Aves sin nido, The Last of the Mohicans, and Ramona

Debra J. Rosenthal

The Squatter, the Don, and the Grandissimes in Our America

Susan Gillman

IV. HYBRID HYBRIDITY

Chicano Ethnicity, Cultural Hybridity, and the Mestizo Voice

Rafael Perez-Torres

Constituting Hybridity as Hybrid: Metis Canadian and Mexican American Formations

Monika Kaup

V. SITES OF MEMORY IN MIXED-RACE AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Living on the River

Rolando Hinojosa-Smith

The Syllogistic Mixedblood: How Roland Barthes Saved Me from the indians

Louis Owens

CODA: From Exoticism to Mixed-Blood Humanism

From Blood to Culture: Miscegenation as Metaphor for the Americas

Earl E. Fitz

Works Cited

Contributors

Index