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The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History

Race and the Writing of American History
By:James Carson
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137438621
eText ISBN:9781137438638
Edition:0
Copyright:2015
Format:Reflowable

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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.