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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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
[2018]
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| Edice: | Early American studies.
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16t6j48 |
| Shrnutí: | 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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| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (217 pages) |
| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812294934 0812294939 9780812250060 |