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A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic
Bruce Dain
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Description for A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic
Hardcover. This text 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. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; JFCX; JFSL1; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 38. Weight in Grams: 636.
The intellectual history of race, one of the most pernicious and enduring ideas in American history, has remained segregated into studies of black or white traditions. Bruce Dain breaks this separatist pattern with an integrated account of the emergence of modern racial consciousness in the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War. 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.
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Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
Number of Pages
334
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674009462
SKU
V9780674009462
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About Bruce Dain
Bruce Dain is Associate Professor of History at the University of Utah.
Reviews for A Hideous Monster of the Mind: American Race Theory in the Early Republic
An unusually intelligent and level-headed book that makes several important contributions
recontextualizing Jefferson's thought, familiarizing us with important black authors who have been largely forgotten, reestablishing the European intellectual background to American racial theory, and fearlessly demonstrating the hopeless intellectual confusion 'race' caused for Samuel Stanhope, Hosea Easton, and Josiah Nott. Dain is repeatedly and delightfully insightful.
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recontextualizing Jefferson's thought, familiarizing us with important black authors who have been largely forgotten, reestablishing the European intellectual background to American racial theory, and fearlessly demonstrating the hopeless intellectual confusion 'race' caused for Samuel Stanhope, Hosea Easton, and Josiah Nott. Dain is repeatedly and delightfully insightful.
James Oakes, City ... Read more