Birgit Brander Rasmussen

Biographic Data

ID1083399
NAMEBirgit Brander Rasmussen
GIVEN NAMESBirgit Brander
FAMILY NAMERasmussen
SIGNATURERASMUSSEN B B
AFFILIATIONSYale University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX2

  • Excerpt from Queequeg’s Coffin

    Open AccessBirgit Brander RasmussenARTICLEJournal of Transnational American…2012

    Birgit Brander Rasmussen’s Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature is a fascinating discussion of various non-alphabetic writing by indigenous peoples. According to its blurb, it “recovers previously overlooked moments of textual reciprocity in the colonial sphere, from a 1645 French-Haudenosaunee Peace Council to Herman Melville’s youthful encounters with Polynesian hieroglyphics.” The text reproduced here takes on…

  • “Attended with Great Inconveniences”

    Open AccessBirgit Brander RasmussenARTICLEPMLA/Publications of the Modern…2010

    It was early morning on Sunday, 9 September 1739. While most South Carolina settlers were preparing for church, nearly Two dozen slaves gathered near the Stono River less than twenty miles from Charlestown. After attacking a local store to secure firearms, the group moved south toward Saint Augustine, Florida, swelling in number and spreading terror along the way. The rebels killed more than twenty settlers and set numerous buildings on fire befo…

  • Negotiating Peace, Negotiating Literacies

    Birgit Brander RasmussenARTICLEAmerican Literature2007Cited by: 2References: 1

    A large canoe with three Iroquois men and a French captive approaches the small settlement of Trois Rivières, on the banks of the St. Lawrence River.It is 5 July 1645.Suddenly, those gathered along the shore recognize the Frenchman.Guillaume Cousture, a young man taken captive by the Iroquois and presumed dead, has been brought back alive.As French settlers rush to welcome Cousture, a tall and stately man stands up in the front of the boat and ad…

  • The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

    Mike Hill, Birgit Brander Rasmussen et al.ARTICLESouth Atlantic Review2002

  • The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

    Debbie Storrs, Birgit Brander Rasmussen et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2002

  • The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

    Julian Carter, Birgit Brander Rasmussen et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2002Cited by: 2

    This collection of essays had its origins in an era of political outrage and sorrow for antiracists in California. In 1992 three police officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted by an all-white jury. The next several years saw rising agitation against undocumented workers. In 1996 Proposition 209 ended affirmative action programs in all state agencies, including the University of California system. A reading group of University of California g…

  • The making and unmaking of whiteness

    Birgit Brander RasmussenBOOKThe making and unmaking of…2001

  • The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness

    Open AccessBérubé Allan, Conley Dalton et al.EDITORBOOKMaking and Unmaking of Whiteness2001

    Bringing together essays from the controversial Berkeley conference of the same name, The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness presents a fascinating range of inquiry into the nature of whiteness as an identity crosscut by race. Representing academics, independent scholars, community organisers, and anti-racist activists, the contributors are all leaders in the 'second wave' of whiteness studies who collectively aim to combat the historical legacies …