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.

Номзүйн дэлгэрэнгүй
Үндсэн зохиолч: Block, Sharon, 1968- (Зохиогч)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Хэл сонгох:англи
Хэвлэсэн: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press [2018]
Цуврал:Early American studies.
Онлайн хандалт:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16t6j48
Тодорхойлолт
Тойм: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.
Биет тодорхойлолт:1 online resource (217 pages)
Номзүй:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780812294934
0812294939
9780812250060