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A Mixed race : ethnicity in early America / edited by Frank Shuffelton.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
- Ethnicity--United States--History--17th century.
- Ethnicity.
- Ethnicity--United States--History--18th century.
- Ethnic relations in literature.
- Ethnic groups in literature.
- United States--Intellectual life--18th century.
- United States.
- United States--Intellectual life--17th century.
- United States--Ethnic relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (295 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focusing on the 18th century and colonial American values, this collection of essays explores the subject of ethnicity in the USA. Moving from questions of race and ethnicity to varieties of ethnic representation, it sheds light on the confrontations of ethnically different peoples.
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""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""
- ""13. Thomas Jefferson: Race, Culture, and the Failure of Anthropological Method""""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1993.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772530-9
- 1-280-44239-5
- 1-4237-6473-0
- 0-19-536056-7
- 1-60129-883-8
- OCLC:
- 922952735
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