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Worlds apart : race in the modern period

Examines stereotypes and the ways race has been invented and utilized by the West
Print Book, English, 2001
Bergin & Garvey, Westport, Conn., 2001
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 218 pages ; 24 cm
9780897897228, 0897897226
44133040
Introduction The "Trace" of Orality New World/Old Word: Viewed, Visionary, Verbal, & Visual in the Construction of Text "To Wash an Ethiop White": Royalty, Gender and Race Talking Indian: Written Hegemony and Oral Native American Narration (Re)Placing the Wor(l)d: The Search for the "Half Sign" Imagining Africa: Space as Myth and Reality Africa in Europe: Binaries and Polarities Inventing Diaspora: African Cultural Extensions When Nomads Go Home: Inventing a Third Space Interacting at the Margins: When Race is Class is Gender Bibliography Index