Writing Race Across the Atlantic World

Medieval to Modern

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Edited by Philip D. Beidler and Gary Taylor

Palgrave

Due/Published March 2005, 208 pages, paper

ISBN 0312295979

"Writing Race Across the Atlantic World, Medieval to Modern comprises a set of lively, diverse, and original investigations into contemporary notions of race in the oceanic interculture of the Atlantic during the early modern period. Working across institutional boundaries of "American" and "British" literature in this period, as well as between "history" and "literature," ten essays address the ways in which cultural categories of "race"--brown, red, and white, African-American and Afro-Caribbean, Spanish and Jewish, English and Celtic, native American and northern European, creole and mestizo--were constructed and adapted by early modern writers.

Contents

Introduction--Gary Taylor and Philip Beidler
A Mirror Across the Water: Mimetic Racism and Cultural Survival--Barbara Fuchs
Angells in America--Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Prehistoric Diasporas: Colonial Theories of the Origins of Native American Peoples--Gordon Sayre
"Extravagant Viciousness": Slavery and Gluttony in the Works of Thomas Tryon--Kim Hall
Fresh Produce--Joseph Roach
Michelangelo and the Curse of Ham: From a Typology of Jew-Hatred to a Genealogy of Racism--Benjamin Braude
Errour's Children: Milk, Blood, and "Race" in Late Sixteenth-Century Ireland--David Baker
Othello, Passion, and Race--Mary Floyd-Wilson
"Working Like a Dog": African Labor and Racking: The Human-Animal Divide in Early Modern England--Francesca Royster
Mustapha Rub-a-Dub Keli Khan and Other Famous Early American Mahometans--Philip Beidler