Beyond the question of how race was useful to English self-fashioning, the essays in this book are also concerned with how the practices of English culture help

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The past is always an interpretive act from the lens of the present. Through the lens of critical race theory, the essays collected here explore new analytical

"Elizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes towards race were connected to assumptions about the relationship between the act of reading and the natur

African Americans from Pittsburgh have a long and distinctive history of contributions to the cultural, political, and social evolution of the United States. Fr