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Race: The History of an Idea in America (Race and American Culture) Paperback - 1997 - 2nd Edition
by Gossett, Thomas F
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- Title Race: The History of an Idea in America (Race and American Culture)
- Author Gossett, Thomas F
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 2nd
- Edition New
- Condition Used:Good
- Pages 544
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, New York
- Date 1997-08-14
- Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX0195097785
- ISBN 9780195097788 / 0195097785
- Weight 1.37 lbs (0.62 kg)
- Dimensions 8.34 x 5.58 x 1.1 in (21.18 x 14.17 x 2.79 cm)
- Reading level 1450
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Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Race relations, Racism - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96-38769
- Dewey Decimal Code 305.800
Summary
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 renderedobsolete. 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 editorsArnold Rampersad and Shelley Fisher Fishkin, this edition should find a wide readership among young scholars and students working in African-American, literary, and cultural studies.
First line
WHEN THE ENGLISH COLONISTS first landed in this country, they immediately encountered one race "problem" in the Indians.
From the rear cover
Here, reprinted without change, is Gossett's classic study, making available to a new generation of scholars a lucid, accessibly written volume that ranges 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.
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Citations
- Library Journal, 02/01/1998, Page 118