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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Príomhchruthaitheoir: Block, Sharon, 1968- (Údar)
Formáid: Licensed eBooks
Teanga:Béarla
Foilsithe / Cruthaithe: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press [2018]
Sraith:Early American studies.
Rochtain ar líne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv16t6j48