The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History

The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History
Author: James Carson
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 151
Release: 2014-12-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137438630

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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.


The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History
Language: en
Pages: 151
Authors: James Carson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-18 - Publisher: Springer

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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
The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History
Language: en
Pages: 146
Authors: James Carson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-18 - Publisher: Springer

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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
History and Identity
Language: en
Pages: 507
Authors: Stefan Berger
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-20 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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This introduction to contemporary historical theory and practice shows how issues of identity have shaped how we write history. Stefan Berger charts how a new s
Between Dispersion and Belonging
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Amitava Chowdhury
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-01 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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As a historical and religious term "diaspora" has existed for many years, but it only became an academic and analytical concept in the 1980s and ’90s. Within
A Covenant with Color
Language: en
Pages: 356
Authors: Craig Steven Wilder
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-07-05 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Spanning three centuries of Brooklyn history from the colonial period to the present, A Covenant with Color exposes the intricate relations of dominance and sub