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.

書誌詳細
第一著者: Block, Sharon, 1968- (著者)
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press [2018]
シリーズ:Early American studies.
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16t6j48
その他の書誌記述
要約: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.
物理的記述:1 online resource (217 pages)
書誌:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780812294934
0812294939
9780812250060