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1 online resource (x, 321 pages) |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The face of nature -- Culture and the persistence of race -- The horrors of St. Domingue -- The mutability of human affairs -- Conceiving universal equality -- Black immediatism -- The new ethnology -- Effacing the individual. |
| Summary |
"A Hideous Monster of the Mind reveals that ideas on race crossed racial boundaries in a process that produced not only well-known theories of biological racism but also countertheories that were early expressions of cultural relativism, cultural pluralism, and latter-day Afrocentrism." "From 1800 to 1830 in particular, race took on a new reality as Americans, black and white, reacted to postrevolutionary disillusionment, the events of the Haitian Revolution, the rise of cotton culture, and the entrenchment of slavery. Dain examines not only major white figures like Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Stanhope Smith but also the first self-consciously "black" African-American writers. These various thinkers transformed late-eighteenth-century European environmentalist "natural history" into race theories that combined culture and biology and set the terms for later controversies over slavery and abolition. In those debate, the ethnology of Samuel George Morton and Josiah Nott intertwined conceptually with important writing by black authors who have been largely forgotten, such as Hosea Easton and James McCune Smith. Scientific racism and the idea of races as cultural constructions were thus interrelated aspects of the same effort to explain human differences."--Jacket. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Race -- History.
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Race. |
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History. |
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Race -- Philosophy.
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Race -- Philosophy. |
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Racism -- United States -- History.
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Racism. |
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United States. |
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Racism in anthropology -- United States -- History.
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Racism in anthropology. |
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Race discrimination -- United States -- History.
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Race discrimination. |
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Eugenics -- United States -- History.
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Eugenics. |
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African Americans -- Public opinion.
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African Americans -- Public opinion. |
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African Americans. |
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Public opinion -- United States.
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Public opinion. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
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United States -- Moral conditions.
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Moral conditions. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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Racism. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Dain, Bruce R., 1967- Hideous monster of the mind. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2002 (DLC) 2002027299 (OCoLC)50132276 |
| ISBN |
9780674030145 (electronic book) |
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0674030141 (electronic book) |
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0674009460 (alkaline paper) |
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9780674009462 (alkaline paper) |
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