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Lost Tribes and Promised Lands: The Origins of American Racism

by Ronald Sanders

Race, myth, and the colonial past

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Race, myth, and the colonial past

Ronald Sanders traces the origins of American racial prejudice through the political, religious, and economic ideas that shaped it. The book links 14th-century Spanish anti-Semitism with later attitudes toward African and Native Americans, placing colonial history within a broader account of xenophobia and religious exceptionalism. Drawing on art, psychology, politics, and religion, Sanders challenges narratives of discovery and conquest that present colonization as righteous. Its subject is the long formation of racial myths and their influence across the history of the New World.

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  • Readers interested in the history of racism in North America and the New World
  • Readers exploring connections between colonialism, religion, and political or economic forces
  • Readers interested in historical arguments about the origins of racial prejudice

Themes

American racismColonialism and conquestReligious exceptionalismXenophobia and racial myth

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Book overview

THE COMPLETE ORIGINAL EDITION!

 

An utterly revelatory work. Unprecedented in scope, detail, and ambition.

In Lost Tribes and Promised Lands, celebrated historian and cultural critic Ronald Sanders offers a compelling and ideology-shattering history of racial prejudice and myth as shaped by political, religious, and economic forces from the 14th Century to the present day. Written with clear-eyed vigor, Sanders draws on a broad history of art, psychology, politics, and religion to inform his striking and soundly-reasoned assertions.

Lost Tribes and Promised Lands nimbly zig-zags through space and time, doggedly chipping away at the myopic history of discovery and righteous conquest that has been reiterated for decades by the same ideological forces responsible for centuries of mythological prejudice and racial strife. Placing 14th Century Spanish intolerance (specifically anti-Semitism) as the origins of American racism toward African and Native Americans, Sanders elegantly weaves complex threads of colonial economics, religious exceptionalism, and xenophobia into a heady and often-infuriating thesis on the history of racism.

Finally back in print in a complete and cost-accessible edition (when the book was out of print, demand for this important work was so intense that used copies sold for thousands of dollars). Find out why! Lost Tribes and Promised Lands is a gripping and hegemony-exploding treatise on the history of race in the New World.

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