ISBN:
0195097777
,
0195097785
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxii, 520 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Race and American culture
Series Statement:
Race and American Culture Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Race : The History of an Idea in America
DDC:
305.8/00973
Keywords:
Racism
;
Race awareness
;
Minorities
;
Minorities - United States
;
Electronic books
;
United States Race relations
Abstract:
When Tom Gosset's Race: The History of an Idea in America appeared more than a generation ago, it explored the impact of race theory on literature in a way that anticipated the entire current scholarly discourse on the subject. Though it has gone out of print, it has never been rendered obsolete. Its reprinting is a boon to younger scholars in particular who are unfamiliar with its rich presentation of fact and its clear, efficient analysis, from which so much later theorizing has developed. With a new afterword by and about the author, and an introduction by series editors Arnold Rampersad an
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; I. Early Race Theories; II. England's American Colonies and Race Theories; III. Eighteenth-Century Anthropology; IV. Nineteenth-Century Anthropology; V. The Teutonic Origins Theory; VI. The Study of Language and Literature; VII. Race and Social Darwinism; VIII. The Social Gospel and Race; IX. Literary Naturalism and Race; X. The Indian in the Nineteenth Century; XI. The Status of the Negro: 1865-1915; XII. Anti-Immigration Agitation: 1865-1915; XIII. Imperialism and the Anglo-Saxon; XIV. World War I and Racism; XV. Racism in the 1920s; XVI. The Scientific Revolt Against Racism
Description / Table of Contents:
XVII. The Battle Against PrejudiceNotes; Bibliographic Essay; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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