{"product_id":"the-word-in-black-and-white-reading-race-in-american-literature-1638-1867-9780195065923","title":"The Word in Black and White: Reading \"race\" in American Literature, 1638-1867","description":"Nelson provides a study of the ways in which Anglo-American authors constructed \"race\" in their works from the time of the first British colonists through the period of the Civil War. She focuses on some eleven texts, ranging from widely-known to little-considered, that deal with the relations among Native, African, and Anglo-Americans, and places her readings in the historical, social, and material contexts of an evolving U.S. colonialism and internal imperialism. Nelson shows how a novel such as \u003cem\u003eThe Last of the Mohicans\u003c\/em\u003e sought to reify the Anglo historical past and simultaneously suggested strategies that would serve Anglo-Americans against Native Americans as the frontier pushed further west. Concluding her work with a reading of Harriet Jacobs's \u003cem\u003eIncidents in the Life of a Slave Girl\u003c\/em\u003e Nelson shows how that text undercuts the racist structures of the pre-Civil War period by positing a revised model of sympathy that authorizes alternative cultural perspectives and requires Anglo-Americans to question their own involvement with racism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nelson, Dana D.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195065923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Dana D. Nelson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32745612443723,"sku":"9780195065923","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_bf873968-34fc-494a-a818-d5ffd8616cb3.jpg?v=1597704374","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/the-word-in-black-and-white-reading-race-in-american-literature-1638-1867-9780195065923","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}