Race: The History of an Idea in America

AvThomas F. Gossett

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

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When Tom Gossett'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 rendered obsolete. 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 editors Arnold 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1997-10-09
Mått:142 x 212 x 27 mm
Vikt:621 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Race and American Culture
Antal sidor:544
Upplaga:97002
Förlag:OUP USA
Medarbetare:ShelleyFisher Fishkin
ISBN:9780195097788

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturteori inom Skönlitteratur
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

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Thomas F. Gossett is Professor Emeritus of English at Wake Forest University

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Out of print for too long, Gossett's Race is now restored to us just in time for today's readers of critical race theory, cultural studies, and African American Studies. A critical race theorist who always historicizes, Gossett traces the intellectual history of race as an American idea that travels both transnationally, through the circuits of racial science and empire, and across disciplines, from 18th and 19th-century anthropology to the study of language and literature. Gossett's material terrain extends from U. S. literary nationalism, to representations of the Indian in the nineteenth century, to World War I and racism, and concludes with a look at anti-racist counter-discourses in science, social movements, and expressive culture. A 1960s American Studies classic for cultural studies at the millennium, Race may just succeed in bringing U. S. cultural studies back to the future.