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Article: Race and Ethnicity in Literature
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Race and Ethnicity in Literature
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The Melting Pot.
“
What then is the American, this new man?
”
asked Michel Guillaume Jean de Cr
è
vecoeur (1735-1813), a French immigrant whose
Letters front an American Farmer
(1782), introduced American folk and folkways to curious readers on both sides of the Atlantic.
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I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations,
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Cr
è
vecoeur ob-served.
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Here individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men, whose labours and posterity will one day cause ...