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.

Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Block, Sharon, 1968- (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press [2018]
Cyfres:Early American studies.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16t6j48
Disgrifiad
Crynodeb: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.
Disgrifiad Corfforoll:1 online resource (217 pages)
Llyfryddiaeth:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780812294934
0812294939
9780812250060