Colonial complexions : race and bodies in eighteenth-century America /
How did descriptions of individuals' appearance reinforce emergent categories of race? In Colonial Complexions, more than 4000 advertisements for runaway slaves and servants reveal how colonists transformed seemingly observable characteristics into racist reality.
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| التنسيق: | Licensed eBooks |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
| منشور في: |
Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
[2018]
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| سلاسل: | Early American studies.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16t6j48 |
| الملخص: | How did descriptions of individuals' appearance reinforce emergent categories of race? In Colonial Complexions, more than 4000 advertisements for runaway slaves and servants reveal how colonists transformed seemingly observable characteristics into racist reality. |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (217 pages) |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ردمك: | 9780812294934 0812294939 9780812250060 |