cism of Imitation Nation, as Richards consistently describes hybridity and ambivalence as twin products of crossracial mimesis. Without contradiction, then, Richards’s account of unsustainable white purity collapsing into multiculturalism doubles as the story of power’s adaptability. Imitation Nation offers insight into white nationalism’s capacity to outlive its founding fictions. Although Richards emphasizes a liberatory arc of racial purity eroded and overcome through its very acts of becoming, a careful reading of Imitation Nation reveals another national narrative, an etiology of white nationalism, an account of how whiteness and its beneficiaries have adaptively absorbed nonwhite identities over time.

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束缚的纽带：玛丽·詹金斯·施瓦茨的《建立第一夫人和奴隶》

正如理查兹一贯将混合性和矛盾性描述为跨种族模仿的孪生产物一样。因此，理查兹对不可持续的白人纯洁性崩溃为多元文化主义的描述可以毫无矛盾地成为权力适应性的故事。模仿国家提供了洞察白人民族主义超越其创始小说的能力。尽管理查兹强调了种族纯洁的解放弧线通过其形成行为被侵蚀和克服，但仔细阅读《模仿国家》揭示了另一种民族叙事，一种白人民族主义的病因，一种关于白人及其受益者如何适应性地吸收非白人身份超过时间。