Unbecoming British

Unbecoming British
Author: Kariann Akemi Yokota
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190217871


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From household objects to maps and ideas of race, Kariann Yokota examines early US history through the lens of postcolonial theory. While its leaders went to great lengths to establish their "civility,"what really distinguished the new nation were its unlimited natural resources, slavery, and the displacement of native societies.