History A-Level
Race and authorship
What Race and authorship means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Race and authorship
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Weighing who wrote each text, for whom, and how it was received, including tension between white-authored representation and Black self-representation.
Topics that use Race and authorship
- Paper 3, Option 39.1: Civil rights and race relations in the USA, 1850–2009 - 2 Changing portrayal of civil rights issues in fiction and film (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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