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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: James Carson, J. Carson
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 18.12.2014
• Categoria: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni
• EAN: 9781137438621
• ISBN: 978-1-137-43862-1
• Numero di pagine: 127
• Categorie: Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte, Amerikanische Geschichte, B, Ethnic Studies, Social History, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / United States / General, History - U.S., SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, auseinandersetzen, Ethnicity, History of the Americas, Ethnicity Studies, Race and Ethnicity Studies, Palgrave History Collection, America—History, United States—History, US History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General