A Mixed race
Subtitle: ethnicity in early America
By: edited by Frank Shuffelton.
Contributors: Shuffelton, Frank, 1940-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism; American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; Ethnicity -- United States -- History -- 17th century; Ethnicity -- United States -- History -- 18th century; Ethnic relations in literature; Ethnic groups in literature; United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; United States -- Intellectual life -- 17th century; United States -- Ethnic relations
Description: "Entering one of the most topical and energetic debates of our time, this collection of new essays addresses the issue of ethnicity, focusing on colonial America, a period which has been previously overlooked in recent scholarship about the formation of American culture. The essays [in this book] suggest that American culture has arisen out of an unusually rich and interactive ethnic mix--inescapably multicultural from its very beginnings-- and that this representation of cultural differences has fundamentally defined American culture. They argue that a culture shaped by responses to ethnic and racial difference is not merely a modern circumstance but one at the base of American history"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.