Early American writers dealt with racial identity from a different perspective.
Katy Chiles
Katy Chiles
Recognizing Katy Chiles for her recently published book Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America.
Transformable Race: Surprising Metamorphoses in the Literature of Early America
Many early Americans thought that race was an exterior bodily trait, incrementally produced by environmental factors and continuously subject to change.