Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930

by Patrick Brantlinger

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Patrick Brantlinger examines the commonly held 19th-century view that all primitive or savage races around the world were doomed sooner or later to extinction. Warlike propensities and presumed cannibalism were regarded as simultaneously noble and suicidal, accelerants of the downfall of other races after contact with white civilization. Brantlinger finds at the heart of this belief the stereotype of the self-exterminating savage, or the view that...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0801438098

ISBN13:9780801438097

Release Date:July 2003

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.4"

Related Subjects

Discrimination & Racism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Race Relations Social Science Social Sciences

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