Through close readings of texts by African American and women authors, Minority Reports offers a theoretical defense of the use of identity categories in American studies by examining how early American literature not only responds to the social stratification of the nineteenth century but also challenges modern historical conceptions of this era.

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MICHAEL BORGSTROM is Assistant Professor of English at San Diego State University, USA.

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Introduction: Identity, History, Narrative What Do We Want from Harriet Wilson? Frank J. Webb and the Fate of the Sentimental Race Man Setting the Record Straight in Uncle Tom's Cabin Frederick Douglass, Whiteness, and the Limits of Knowledge Face Value: Ambivalent Citizenship in Iola Leroy Conclusion: Return from the Beyond