The Roots of American Racism : Essays on the Colonial Experience.

By: Vaughan, Alden TMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 1995Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (369 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780195358681Subject(s): Racism -- United States -- History | United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 | United States -- Race relationsGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Roots of American Racism : Essays on the Colonial ExperienceDDC classification: 305.8/00973/09032 LOC classification: E184.A1 -- V35 1995ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- I: Changing Perceptions -- 1. From White Man to Redskin: Changing Anglo-American Perceptions of the American Indian -- 2. Early English Paradigms for New World Natives -- 3. Slaveholders' "Hellish Principles": A Seventeenth-Century Critique -- 4. Frontier Banditti and the Indians: The Paxton Boys' Legacy, 1763-75 -- II: Culture and Race in Early Virginia -- 5. "Expulsion of the Salvages": English Policy and the Virginia Massacre of 1622 -- 6. Blacks in Virginia: Evidence from the First Decade -- 7. The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth-Century Virginia -- III: Puritans and Indians -- 8. Pequots and Puritans: The Causes of the War of 1637 -- 9. Tests of Puritan Justice -- 10. Crossing the Cultural Divide: Indians and New Englanders, 1605-1763 (with Daniel K. Ritcher) -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: This collection of essays focuses principally on ethnic relations in colonial America. While the principal concern of the book is the interaction of culture and races, its more specific focus is on the evolution of colonial policies that arose from European perceptions of native Americans.
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Intro -- Contents -- I: Changing Perceptions -- 1. From White Man to Redskin: Changing Anglo-American Perceptions of the American Indian -- 2. Early English Paradigms for New World Natives -- 3. Slaveholders' "Hellish Principles": A Seventeenth-Century Critique -- 4. Frontier Banditti and the Indians: The Paxton Boys' Legacy, 1763-75 -- II: Culture and Race in Early Virginia -- 5. "Expulsion of the Salvages": English Policy and the Virginia Massacre of 1622 -- 6. Blacks in Virginia: Evidence from the First Decade -- 7. The Origins Debate: Slavery and Racism in Seventeenth-Century Virginia -- III: Puritans and Indians -- 8. Pequots and Puritans: The Causes of the War of 1637 -- 9. Tests of Puritan Justice -- 10. Crossing the Cultural Divide: Indians and New Englanders, 1605-1763 (with Daniel K. Ritcher) -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

This collection of essays focuses principally on ethnic relations in colonial America. While the principal concern of the book is the interaction of culture and races, its more specific focus is on the evolution of colonial policies that arose from European perceptions of native Americans.

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