From the dust jacket. In Taming Cannibals, Patrick Brantlinger unravels contradictions embedded in the racist and imperial ideology of the British Empire. For many Victorians, the idea of taming cannibals or civilizing savages was oxymoronic: civilization was a goal that the non…
"Morris offers annotated primary-source documents--personal narratives, government reports, statutes, newspaper articles, and speeches--to highlight the significant people, events, social and political movements, and ideas that have shaped black life in South Carolina and beyond…
"Bodily contrasts - from the colour of hair, eyes and skin to the shape of faces and skeletons - allowed the English of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to discriminate systematically among themselves and against non-Anglophone groups. Making use of an array of sou…
"Between the late nineteenth century and the outbreak of the First World War, many prominent thinkers in Britain and the United States elaborated a vision for the unification of the English-speaking world into a single political entity. The basis for this utopian thinking was a …
"The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois" explores racism and colonialism at the center of the understanding of modernity"-- "The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois provides a comprehensive introduction to the founding father of American sociological thought. Du Bois is now recognized as a pi…
"The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois" explores racism and colonialism at the center of the understanding of modernity"--.
"The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois" explores racism and colonialism at the center of the understanding of modernity"-- "The Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois provides a comprehensive introduction to the founding father of American sociological thought. Du Bois is now recognized as a pi…
The first comprehensive understanding of Du Bois for social scientistsThe Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois provides a comprehensive introduction to the founding father of American sociological thought. Du Bois is now recognized as a pioneer of American scientific sociology and as som…
This book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not o…
This book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not o…
This book challenges many assumptions about blacks, Jews, Germans, slavery, and education. Plainly written and backed with documented facts, it takes on not only the trendy intellectuals of our times but also such historic interpreters of American life as Alexis de Tocqueville a…