Title A Mixed race : ethnicity in early America / edited by Frank Shuffelton.

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New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 286 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Economies of morality and power: Reading "race" in two colonial contexts / Dana D. Nelson -- "So unstable and like mad men they were": Language and interpretation in American captivity narratives / David R. Sewell -- John William's captivity narrative: A consideration of normative ethnicity / Rosalie Murphy Baum -- The American Indian as humorist in colonial literature / Luise van Keuren -- Red, white, and black: Indian captivities, colonial printers, and the early African-American narrative / John Sekora -- Recapturing John Marrant / Benilde Montgomery.
	(cont.) Representation of ethnicity among colonial Pennsylvania Germans / William T. Parsons -- Cosmopolitanism and the Anglo-Jewish elite in British America / David S. Shields -- Ethnic humor in early American jest books / Robert Secor -- The gratification of that corrupt and lawless passion: Character types and themes in early New England rape narratives / Daniel Williams -- Phillis Wheatley and the Black American Revolution / Betsy Erkkila -- The heritage of American ethnicity in Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer / Doreen Alvarez Saar -- Thomas Jefferson: Race, culture, and the failure of anthropological method / Frank Shuffelton.
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Summary	Focusing on the 18th century and colonial American values, this collection of essays explores the subject of ethnicity in the USA. Moving from questions of race and ethnicity to varieties of ethnic representation, it sheds light on the confrontations of ethnically different peoples.
Subject	American literature -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- History and criticism.
	American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
	Ethnicity -- United States -- History -- 17th century.
	Ethnicity -- United States -- History -- 18th century.
	United States -- Intellectual life -- 18th century.
	United States -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
	Ethnic relations in literature.
	Ethnic groups in literature.
	United States -- Ethnic relations.
	Ethnology in literature.
	Ethnicity in literature.
	LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
	American literature -- Colonial period. (OCoLC)fst01711006
	American literature -- Minority authors. (OCoLC)fst00807213
	Ethnic groups in literature. (OCoLC)fst00915988
	Ethnic relations. (OCoLC)fst00916005
	Ethnic relations in literature. (OCoLC)fst00916024
	Ethnicity. (OCoLC)fst00916034
	Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1600-1799
Indexed Term	English literature
	United States
Genre/Form	Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
	Electronic books.
	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	Shuffelton, Frank, 1940-
Other Form:	Print version: Mixed race. New York : Oxford University Press, 1993 0195075226 0195075234 (DLC) 92043927 (OCoLC)27069049
ISBN	1423764730 (electronic bk.)
	9781423764731 (electronic bk.)

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