The Inhuman Race

by Leonard Cassuto

Reconstructs a dialogue between objectifiers (American Puritans, slaveowners) and objectifieds (Native Americans, slaves) by arguing that the literature of race in antebellum America is the continuing story of an encounter with the grotesque. The focus is on literature-from Puritan captivity accounts, fugitive slave narratives, and proslavery fiction to the work of Melville, Stowe, Douglass, and their contemporaries. But Cassuto also ranges from colonial prodigies to nineteenth-century freak shows and Sambo stereotyping, from horror movies to the Holocaust Museum.

Genres: Race, Nonfiction, History

288 pages, Hardcover

First published April 15, 1996

Reviews

[Lanny · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an interesting study of the 'racial grotesque'
and has alot of art I have never seen, most of it racist.
Anything scholarly with the word grotesque in the title
I'll read. This particular book is good to read alongside
the Maroon history book, as there is some overlap.