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The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History

The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History

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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.

Keywords

HistoryAmericas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Social HistorySocial ScienceSociologyUnited StatesMinority Studies

2014Book

Author(s)James Taylor Carson

PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US

ISBN9781137438621

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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