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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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
| Được phát hành: |
Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press
[2018]
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| Loạt: | Early American studies.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16t6j48 |
| Tóm tắt: | 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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| Mô tả vật lý: | 1 online resource (217 pages) |
| Thư mục: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| số ISBN: | 9780812294934 0812294939 9780812250060 |