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Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons

A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas

Kirsten Silva Gruesz

2022

Harvard University Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Cover page of "Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons." Beige cover with a small red image of a tonsured monastic scribe with a book in front of him, evidentally engaged in scholarship.

Structures of Belonging and Nonbelonging

A Spanish-language pamphlet by Cotton Mather explodes the Black-versus-white binary that dominates most discussions of race in our time.

by Joseph Rezek via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 1, 2023

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