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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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
[2018]
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| Series: | Early American studies.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16t6j48 |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (217 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812294934 0812294939 9780812250060 |