Rather than seeing American literature as beginning with the writings of English or Spanish colonists, this title points to the wide variety of indigenous writing in the Americas prior to colonization. It proposes a literature of the Americas that includes both indigenous and al…
Rather than seeing American literature as beginning with the writings of English or Spanish colonists, this title points to the wide variety of indigenous writing in the Americas prior to colonization. It proposes a literature of the Americas that includes both indigenous and al…
Rather than seeing American literature as beginning with the writings of English or Spanish colonists, Brander Rasmussen points to the wide variety of indigenous writing in the Americas prior to colonization. The study looks at writing between 1524 and the mid-19th century work …
The confrontation between European and native peoples in the Americas is often portrayed as a conflict between literate civilization and illiterate savages. That perception ignores the many indigenous forms of writing that were not alphabet-based, like Mayan pictoglyphs, Iroquoi…
Rather than seeing American literature as beginning with the writings of English or Spanish colonists, Brander Rasmussen points to the wide variety of indigenous writing in the Americas prior to colonization. The study looks at writing between 1524 and the mid-19th century work …
The confrontation between European and native peoples in the Americas is often portrayed as a conflict between literate civilization and illiterate savages. That perception ignores the many indigenous forms of writing that were not alphabet-based, like Mayan pictoglyphs, Iroquoi…
Bringing together essays from the Berkeley conference with the same title, this work presents an inquiry into the nature of whiteness as an identity crosscut by race.
Bringing together new articles and essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness. Representing academics, independent scholars, community organizers, a…