{"product_id":"race-thomas-f-gossett-9781684227907","title":"Race: The History of an Idea in America","description":"\u003cp\u003e2023 Reprint of the 1963 U.S. Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. \"When Thomas Gossett's \u003cem\u003eRace: The History of an Idea in America \u003c\/em\u003eappeared in 1963, it explored the impact of race theory on American letters in a way that anticipated the investigation of race and culture being conducted today. Bold, rigorous, and broad in scope, Gossett's book quickly established itself as a critical resource to younger scholars seeking a candid, theoretically sophisticated treatment of race in American cultural history.\"-Oxford University Press Edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGossett covers material from colonial race theory and its European antecedents, through eighteenth- and nineteenth- century race pseudoscience, to the racialist dimension of American thought and literature emerging against backgrounds such as Anglo-Saxonism, westward expansion, Social Darwinism, xenophobia, World War I, and modern racial theory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents: Early race theories -- England's American colonies and race theories -- Eighteenth-century anthropology -- Nineteenth-century anthropology -- The Teutonic origins theory -- The study of language and literature -- Race and Social Darwinism -- The Social Gospel and race -- Literary naturalism and race -- The Indian in the nineteenth century -- The status of the Negro: 1865-1915 -- Anti-immigration agitation: 1865-1915 -- Imperialism and the Anglo-Saxon -- World War I and racism -- Racism in the 1920's -- The scientific revolt against racism -- The battle against prejudice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas F. Gossett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1684227909\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781684227907\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Martino Fine Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.17d","brand":"Thomas F. Gossett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44567062151423,"sku":"9781684227907","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8654d49c-ee69-4268-8b49-b142ed6fefe3.jpg?v=1701375853","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/race-thomas-f-gossett-9781684227907","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}