Writing Race Across the Atlantic World, 1492-1789
Contributors: Phillip Beidler (Editor); Gary Taylor (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: December 23, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780312295974
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; c 1500 to c 1600; c 1600 to c 1700; c 1700 to c 1800; History; History - U.S.; Textbooks; History: American; British Isles; USA; American - General; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; United States - Colonial Period; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; America; Colonies; Congresses; Great Britain; Race relations; Racism; Slavery
First sentence: IT is my contention that the complexities of race in the New World cannot be adequately understood without a concomitant understanding of metropolitan, European racism.