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RobeRt s. LevIne University of Maryland Introduction New Essays on "Race," Writing, and Representation in Early America The essays in this issue of Early American Literature are linked by their interest in race, which remains a problematic term in early American studies (see, for example, the roundtable on race in the 2006 Early American Literature [41.2]). Inspired by Henry Louis Gates's edited collection "Race," Writing, and Difference (1986) and Toni Morrison's "Unspeakable Things Unspoken: The Afro-American Presence in American Literature" (1989), US Americanists of the past several decades have tended to address race in relation to black-white binaries; but as Ralph Bauer and others have shown, race in early American studies should also be thought of in relation to creolization, nationalism, colonialism, a range of ethnicities, capitalism, styles of discourse, and native studies. In the hybridized space of the Americas in particular, what made a person "white" or "black" or "red" when there were interracial sexual relations across the color line? And when did color really matter, and in what ways? Reflecting on Thomas Jefferson's rumored sexual relations with his slave Sally Hemings, William Wells Brown, in his 1853 Clotel, presents light-complected slaves whose genealogical connections to "black"
Early American Literature – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jul 3, 2011
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