The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, History, Americas
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Author: James Carson ISBN: 9781137438638
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US Publication: December 18, 2014
Imprint: Palgrave Pivot Language: English
Author: James Carson
ISBN: 9781137438638
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication: December 18, 2014
Imprint: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English

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.

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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.

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