List of illustrations
Preface. Coalitions, solidarities, and acknowledgments
Introduction. Performing medievalism, crafting identities
1. Progress: racial belonging, medieval masculinities, and the ethnic minority Bildungsroman
2. Plague: toxic chivalry, Chinatown crusades, and Chinese/Jewish solidarities
3. Place: indefinite detention and forms of resistance in Angel Island poetry
4. Passing: crossing color lines in the short fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Sui Sin Far
5. Play: racial recognition, unsettling poetics, and the reinvention of Old English and Middle English forms
6. Pilgrimage: Chaucerian poets of color in motion
Further readings and resources
Bibliography
Index.