Mixed Race : Ethnicity in Early America.
This collection of new essays enters one of the most topical and energetic debates of our time--the subject of ethnicity. The recent vigorous debates being waged over questions raised by the phenomenon of multiculturalism in America highlight the fact that American culture has arisen out of anunusua...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press,
1993.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contributors; Introduction; I: Questions of Race and Ethnicity; 1. Economies of Morality and Power: Reading ""Race"" in Two Colonial Contexts; 2. ""So Unstable and Like Mad Men They Were"": Language and Interpretation in American Captivity Narratives; 3. John Williams's Captivity Narrative: A Consideration of Normative Ethnicity; 4. The American Indian as Humorist in Colonial Literature; 5. Red, White, and Black: Indian Captivities, Colonial Printers, and the Early African-American Narrative; 6. Recapturing John Marrant; II: Varieties of Ethnic Representation.
- 7. Representation of Ethnicity Among Colonial Pennsylvania Germans8. Cosmopolitanism and the Anglo-Jewish Elite in British America; 9. Ethnic Humor in Early American Jest Books; 10. The Gratification of That Corrupt and Lawless Passion: Character Types and Themes in Early New England Rape Narratives; III: Individual Confrontations; 11. Phillis Wheatley and the Black American Revolution; 12. The Heritage of American Ethnicity in Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer; 13. Thomas Jefferson: Race, Culture, and the Failure of Anthropological Method; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L.
- Mn; o; p; r; s; t; u; v; w; y; z.