The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History
| Author | : James Carson |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 127 |
| Release | : 2014-12-18 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781137438638 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1137438630 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (630 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History by : James Carson
Download or read book The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History written by James Carson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
