Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America.

Racial thought at the close of the 18th century differed radically from that of the 19th century, when the concept of race as a fixed biological category would emerge. Instead, many early Americans thought that race was an exterior bodily trait, incrementally produced by environmental factors, and c...

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Main Author: Chiles, Katy L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford Scholarship Online, [2014]
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