As Spain and England vied for dominance of the Atlantic world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mounting political and religious tensions between the two empires raised a troubling specter for contemporary British writers attempting to justify early English imperial efforts. Specifically, these writers focused on encounters with black Africans throughout the Atlantic world, attempting to use these points of contact to articulate and defend England s global ambitions. In "Black Africans in the British Imagination," Cassander L. Smith investigates how the physical presence of...
As Spain and England vied for dominance of the Atlantic world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mounting political and religious ten...
This book offers the first extended convergence between Black Studies and Early Modern Studies. Contributors stimulate productive and provocative conversations between these two seemingly disparate fields, enlisting the strategies, methodologies, and insights of Black Studies in the service of Early Modern Studies.
This book offers the first extended convergence between Black Studies and Early Modern Studies. Contributors stimulate productive and provocative conv...
This edited volume addresses the extent to which attitudes about race, impacted by our current political environment, have produced pedagogical challenges for professors in the humanities.
This edited volume addresses the extent to which attitudes about race, impacted by our current political environment, have produced pedagogical challe...
This edited volume addresses the extent to which attitudes about race, impacted by our current political environment, have produced pedagogical challenges for professors in the humanities.
This edited volume addresses the extent to which attitudes about race, impacted by our current political environment, have produced pedagogical challe...
