Download or read book Transformable Race written by Katy L. Chiles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on writers such as Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Franklin, Samson Occum, Charles Brockden Brown, and others, Transformable Race tells the story of how early Americans imagined, contributed to, and challenged the ways that one's racial identity could be formed in the time of the nation's founding.