The Color of Democracy in Women's Regional Writing

Index

Adams, James Truslow, 6 African Americans: in democracy, 17, 75, 86–87, 99–101, 104–5; eugenicists on, 7; and jazz, 59–61; and labor issues, 17, 93–94; political activity of, 75, 92–93, 117; and white southerners, 12, 17, 73–76, 192n28, 103–4, 109n17; in white southern women’s writing, 92–93 American Dream: and new immigrants, 138; and New York, 25, 30; and race, 186n20, 197n58; and the West, 133 American “race,”7–8, 9, 136–38, 157–58, 159 Ames, Jessie Daniel, 121 Anderson-McCormack election law (Virginia ), 75 Anglo-Saxons: and cultural pluralism, 9, 18; decadence of, 8, 9–10, 66; democratic “fitness ”of, 7, 13, 33; eugenics on, 33, 134, 168; in the South, 104; as superior race, 9, 17, 23, 24; in the West, 158. See also Nordics; whites; white women Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching (ASWPL), 121 Baldwin, James: on New York, 26; on race relations in America, 17, 73–74, 100; on race relations in the South, 77, 78, 91; on white racial privilege, 181–82; on white southern identity, 73–74, 78, 91, 98 Belmont, Alva, 21 Berenson, Bernard, 25 Berlin, Irving, 65, 66 Black Hawk (Sauk Chief), 153–54 Boas, Franz, 121 Bohemians. See Slavs Bourne, Randolph, 9, 159, 168–69 Boutmy, Emile, 158 cabarets, 17, 51, 56, 58–59, 62n40 Cahan, Abraham, 28–29, 46, 181 Caldwell, Joshua, 104, 111 Canby, Henry, 5 Castle, Irene, 56–57, 58, 61 Cather,Willa: on African Americans, 76, 78–79, 98; on class, 18, 46, 84, 136, 140, 147n51; on cultural pluralism and eugenics , 18, 136–37, 138–39, 140; on democracy , 5–6, 12–14; development as a writer, 78–79; on immigrants, 3–4, 136–37, 138– 39, 179–80; on the Irish, 180; on modern American culture, 1–6, 183n6; on New Women, 139, 180; on nineteenth-century American culture, 1–4; on Nordics, 139; on the Old South, 79–80; on the pioneers , 3–4; on regionalism, 10–16, 18, 177–78, 180; review of George Bernard Shaw, 1; on Slavs, 139; on the social position of white women, 14, 15–18, 79, Index 214 Index 98, 177–78, 180; on the West, 3–4, 14, 131–32, 133, 136, 160–61; and white southern identity, 76, 78–79, 82–83, 98 Cather,Willa, works of Alexander’s Bridge, 10 A Lost Lady: 18, 80, 160, 170; the American Dream in, 162; class in, 161–64; the Irish in, 161–65; white racial divisions in, 161–62, 163; white womanhood in, 161–62, 164–65 “Miss Jewett,”11–12 My Ántonia: 16, 78, 134, 139, 165; African Americans in, 149–50; AngloAmericans in, 144–45, 147, 148, 150, 151; class in, 145–46, 148–49; cultural pluralism and eugenics in, 18, 154; immigrant diversity in, 80, 147–48, 160; the Irish in, 151; Native American removal in, 149, 153–54; nativism in, 136, 147, 148–49, 154, 161; New Women in, 151–52, 154; Scandinavians in, 147n53, 151–52; Slavs and new immigrants in, 135, 144–145, 150–51, 153–54; whiteness in, 144, 148, 152–54; white womanhood in, 148–50 “My First Novels,”10 “Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle,” 3–4, 140 One of Ours, 161 O Pioneers!: 16, 80, 134, 136, 156; and Cather’s development as a writer, 10–11, 78; cultural pluralism and eugenics in, 18, 140; diversity in, 141, 142–44; Native American removal in, 139; pioneers in, 131; Scandinavians in, 141, 142; Slavs in, 139–40; whiteness in, 142–43 Sapphira and the Slave Girl: 16, 17, 78, 180; African Americans in, 86–87, 101–4, 106, 179; class in, 83–85; the “family black and white”in, 80–81, 83, 86–91, 102–3, 127; interracial sex in, 88–89, 90; the Old South in, 91, 105; slavery in, 80–81, 83–85, 91; white womanhood in, 83, 88–89, 103 Shadows on the Rock, 138 The Song of the Lark, 80 Chesnutt, Charles: “The Goophered Grapevine ,”105–6, 119, 128; The Marrow of Tradition , 105, 106–8, 111–20, 127; and regionalism , 180–81 Chopin, Kate, 92, 93 class: and democracy, 6, 9, 23; and consumer culture, 12, 25; and gender, 58, 146, 150; and immigration, 135, 147–48; in New York, 25–26, 32, 34; in regionalism, 13, 14; in the South, 75–76, 105, 111; in the West, 133, 157–58, 160 CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), 99 cultural...