{"id":2498,"date":"2017-12-31T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2017-12-31T16:51:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T00:51:00","slug":"review-race-and-the-early-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/?p=2498","title":{"rendered":"Review: Race and the Early Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Race and the Early Republic<\/em> is an excellent introduction to how US society reacted to citizens and slaves who were outside the early ideas of what constituted people.\u00a0 Of course, the term in use was &#8220;white men&#8221; &#8211; a more honest phrasing than many in common use today. Michael Morrison builds <em>Race<\/em> from a collection of scholarly essays on relevant topics and enlists the authors to cross-pollinate (and cross reference) one another.\u00a0 It forms an interesting and cohesive collection. It is academic enough that it is a little dry for my tastes.<\/p>\n<p>Though I find the presentation sterile, the ideas are compelling.\u00a0 Essays address different aspects of how European immigrants, indigenous people, and slaves found their way in the new country.\u00a0 Importantly the authors look out from the groups as well as in from the majority and historical point of view.\u00a0 The collection acknowledges what the dominant population encoded into the historical narrative as well as the actions and reactions of\u00a0 the people themselves.\u00a0 The resulting book brings more texture and understanding of the period and how it meshes with what comes before and after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race and the Early Republic is an excellent introduction to how US society reacted to citizens and slaves who were outside the early ideas of what constituted people.\u00a0 Of course, the term in use was &#8220;white men&#8221; &#8211; a more honest phrasing than many in common use today. Michael Morrison builds Race from a collection [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2500,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions\/2500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lunabase.org\/~faber\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}