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.

Библиографические подробности
Главный автор: Block, Sharon, 1968- (Автор)
Формат: Licensed eBooks
Язык:английский
Опубликовано: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press [2018]
Серии:Early American studies.
Online-ссылка:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16t6j48
Описание
Итог: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.
Объем:1 online resource (217 pages)
Библиография:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780812294934
0812294939
9780812250060