The Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American History

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.

Publication Year: 2015
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: H
Weight (Gram): 2912