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Parker, Robert Dale Wegmann-Sanchez, Jessica Mary 2015-09-25T20:14:58Z 2015-09-25T20:14:58Z 10000-01-01 2002 2002 I show how Nella Larsen, James Weldon Johnson, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, George Schuyler, and Toni Morrison expose and challenge the Black/White binary and one drop rule, targeting their respective contemporary audiences with a specifically American understanding of race. Contemporary Black Canadian writers, Mairuth Sarsfield, Suzette Mayr, Andre Alexis, and Lawrence Hill, react against the American writers by overturning readers' expectations and multiplying the ethnic affiliations of their characters. I then examine works from both sides of the border that comment on the government's rhetorical redefinition of Native peoples in order to remove privileges granted in treaties. Exposing this slippery and self-serving legal categorization, John Joseph Mathews, D'Arcy McNickle, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Gerald Vizenor target an audience with an American understanding of exclusive racial categories whereas Beatrice Culleton, Joan Crate, and Thomas King address Canadian beliefs in multiculturalism. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:14:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3044256.pdf: 23747240 bytes, checksum: 93ca3160aa0134f92d53c95ae36ee124 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 82665 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 508 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/81384 (MiAaPQ)AAI3044256 eng Black Studies Cross -Border Critical Race Theory: Black and Native Fiction, American and Canadian Legal Policy text English English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.