ISBN:
9781280451409
,
9780198025825
,
1423740696
,
9781423740698
,
9780195097771
,
0195097777
,
0195097785
,
9780195097788
,
9780198025825
,
0198025823
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
Race and American culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.8/00973
Keywords:
Ideengeschichte
;
Geschichte
;
Minderheit
;
Racism
;
Race awareness
;
Minorities
;
Rassentheorie
;
Nationale Minderheit
;
Rassenfrage
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte
;
USA
;
USA
;
USA
;
Rassenfrage
;
Geschichte
;
USA
;
Nationale Minderheit
;
Geschichte
;
USA
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte
;
USA
;
Rassentheorie
;
Ideengeschichte
;
USA
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte
;
USA
;
Rassenfrage
;
Geschichte
;
USA
;
Nationale Minderheit
;
Geschichte
Note:
ch. 1 - Early race theories -- - ch. 2 - England's American colonies and race theories -- - ch. 3 - Eighteenth- century anthropology -- - ch. 4 - Nineteenth-century anthropology -- - ch. 5 - The Teutonic origins theory -- - ch. 6 - The Study of language and literature -- - ch. 7 - Race and social Darwinism -- - ch. 8 - The Social gospel and race -- - ch. 9 - Literary naturalism and race -- - ch. 10 - The Indian in the nineteenth century -- - ch. 11 - The Status of the Negro: 1865-1915 -- - ch. 12 Anti-immigration agitation: 1865-1915 -- - ch. 13 - Imperialism and the Anglo-Saxon -- - ch. 14 World War I and racism -- - ch. 15 - Racism in the 1920s -- - ch. 16 - The Scientific revolt against racism -- - ch. 17 - The Battle against prejudice
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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
