Members of the Tribe: Jewish-Amerindian Theory and the Making of a Modern American Consciousness

This paper examines how seventeenth century Jewish-Indian theory may have contributed to later forms of racial representation in America. The belief that the Amerindians were of Israelite origin had been in circulation since the late fifteenth century. However, only in the seventeenth century did th...

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Main Author: Julia Cohen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Regensburg: Current objectives in postgraduate American studies c/o Universität Regensburg/Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 2012-03-01
Series:Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies
Online Access:https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/copas/article/view/92
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