Native Tongues - Colonialism and Race From Encounter to the Reservation

Informationen zum Autor Sean P. Harvey is Assistant Professor of History at Seton Hall University. Klappentext Exploring the morally entangled territory of language and race in 18th- and 19th-century America! Sean Harvey shows that whites' theories of an "Indian mind" inexorably shaped by Indian languages played a crucial role in the subjugation of Native peoples and informed the U.S. government's efforts to extinguish Native languages for years to come. Zusammenfassung Exploring the morally entangled territory of language and race in 18th- and 19th-century America, Sean Harvey shows that whites’ theories of an “Indian mind” inexorably shaped by Indian languages played a crucial role in the subjugation of Native peoples and informed the U.S. government’s efforts to extinguish Native languages for years to come.

Product details

• Authors: Sean P. Harvey, Harvey Sean P.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.01.2015
• EAN: 9780674289932
• ISBN: 978-0-674-28993-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Harvard Historical Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; HISTORY / North America, Colonialism & imperialism, Indigenous Peoples, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Social discrimination and equal treatment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Relating to Native American people, Historical and comparative linguistics, HISTORY / Indigenous / General