The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History by Carson, James

The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137438621)

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The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History by Carson, James

The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History

$54.99
The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History by Carson, James

The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History

$54.99
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: James Carson
ISBN-10: 1137438622
ISBN-13: 9781137438621
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English
Published: 12/22/2014
Pages: 127
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d

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Choice 09/01/2015
By James Carson
By James Carson
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James Carson is Chair of the Department of History at Queen's University, Canada.

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