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Introduction BRIA N C ONNOLLY University of South Florida DAWN PETE RSO N Emory University What does it mean to think about the conjunction of race and kinship in early America? What does it mean to presume that there is a conjunction at all? The five articles herein explore this conundrum, revealing that the archives of the early Americas are littered with such intersections. Indeed, their work makes apparent that race, so frequently framed as a genealogical concept preoccupied with heritability, was instrumental in defining kinship —or who could or could not be considered related in blood, bond, or diplomacy—in law, fiction, religion, empire, and the construction of the self. The intersection of race and kinship yields definitions and strategies for governance, settlement and colonization, domination and regulation and simultaneously becomes a site of potential resistance, survival, and endurance in the eras of European and U.S. colonialism. In lieu of an attempt at a comprehensive statement on the state of race and kinship in early American studies, these articles gesture toward numerous locations wherein beliefs and practices about identity and affiliation converge and collide, shaping national boundaries, international relations, intimacy, and self-identity in the process. The intersection of kinship and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal University of Pennsylvania Press

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University of Pennsylvania Press
Copyright
Copyright © 2008 The McNeil Center for Early American Studies.
ISSN
1559-0895

Abstract

BRIA N C ONNOLLY University of South Florida DAWN PETE RSO N Emory University What does it mean to think about the conjunction of race and kinship in early America? What does it mean to presume that there is a conjunction at all? The five articles herein explore this conundrum, revealing that the archives of the early Americas are littered with such intersections. Indeed, their work makes apparent that race, so frequently framed as a genealogical concept preoccupied with heritability, was instrumental in defining kinship —or who could or could not be considered related in blood, bond, or diplomacy—in law, fiction, religion, empire, and the construction of the self. The intersection of race and kinship yields definitions and strategies for governance, settlement and colonization, domination and regulation and simultaneously becomes a site of potential resistance, survival, and endurance in the eras of European and U.S. colonialism. In lieu of an attempt at a comprehensive statement on the state of race and kinship in early American studies, these articles gesture toward numerous locations wherein beliefs and practices about identity and affiliation converge and collide, shaping national boundaries, international relations, intimacy, and self-identity in the process. The intersection of kinship and

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Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary JournalUniversity of Pennsylvania Press

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