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Never One Nation: Freaks, Savages, and Whiteness in U.S. Popular Culture, 1850–1877. By Linda Frost. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. xx, 241 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-8166-4489-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8166-4490-X.)

Much recent scholarship has challenged the idea that racial ideology is primarily a national system by pointing to transnational aspects of racism, but in Never One Nation, Linda Frost comes at the problem from the reverse angle. In her lively and wide-ranging study of racial caricature in nineteenth-century U.S. popular culture, she not only gives racism a habitation and a name, but she insists that the habitation is more provincial than we have considered it. . . .

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