Premodern Critical Race Studies and the Question of History

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12745/et.25.2.5246

Keywords:

race, history, literature, premodern drama

Abstract

This essay reviews four recent books in the field of premodern critical race studies: Urvashi Chakravarty’s Fictions of Consent: Slavery, Servitude, and Free Service in Early Modern England (2022); Matthieu Chapman’s Anti-Black Racism in Early Modern English Drama: The Other ‘Other’ (2019); Ruben Espinosa’s Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism (2021); and Ayanna Thompson’s Blackface (2021).

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Published

2022-12-09

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 2 (2022)

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Review Essays

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