Historical Constructions of Race

Historical Constructions of Race

Required:
 Colin Kidd, “Race in the Eye of the Beholder” from The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World (2006), pp. 1-18. BB
 Read essays in “Constructing Race,” special issue of William and Mary Quarterly 54 (1997) J-stor.
 Nancy Shoemaker, “How Indians Got to be Red,” American Historical Review (June 1987). J-stor
Recommended:
 Thomas C. Holt, “Marking: Race, Race-making, and the Writing of
History,” American Historical Review 100 (Feb. 1995): 1-20.
 David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991), Intro and Ch. 1.
 Alden Vaughn, “The Origins Debate: Slavery, Racism in 17th Century Virginia,” in Roots of Racism (1995), 136-174.
 Matthew Frye Jacobson, Whiteness of a Different Color: Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race (1998).
 Winthrop Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro (1968).
 Matthew Restall, ed. Beyond Black and Red: African-Native Relations in Colonial Latin America (2005).

To Think About ~ What theories do these historians propose about the origins of concepts of race? How malleable do they argue these concepts are? Where do they see the historical roots of ideologies of racial supremacy?