Columbian Covenant - Race and the Writing of American History

Informationen zum Autor James Carson is Chair of the Department of History at Queen's University, Canada. Klappentext This provocative analysis of American historiography argues that when scholars use modern racial language to articulate past histories of race and society, they collapse different historical signs of skin color into a transhistorical and essentialist notion of race that implicates their work in the very racial categories they seek to transcend. Zusammenfassung This provocative analysis of American historiography argues that when scholars use modern racial language to articulate past histories of race and society! they collapse different historical signs of skin color into a transhistorical and essentialist notion of race that implicates their work in the very racial categories they seek to transcend. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Colonial Histories 2. National Histories 3. Modern Histories 4. Other Histories

List of contents

1. Colonial Histories 2. National Histories 3. Modern Histories 4. Other Histories

Product details

• Authors: J. Carson, James Carson
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2014
• EAN: 9781137438621
• ISBN: 978-1-137-43862-1
• No. of pages: 127
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; B, Ethnic Studies, Social History, Social & cultural history, Ethnicity, History of the Americas, Ethnicity Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Palgrave History Collection, America—History, United States—History, US History