How race is made: slavery, segregation, and the senses

"Based on painstaking research, how Race Is Made is a highly original, always frank, and often disturbing book. After enslaved Africans were initially brought to America, the offspring of black and white sexual relationships (consensual and forced) complicated the purely visual sense of racial...

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Main Author: Smith, Mark M. 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill [u.a.] University of North Carolina Press 2006
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Summary:"Based on painstaking research, how Race Is Made is a highly original, always frank, and often disturbing book. After enslaved Africans were initially brought to America, the offspring of black and white sexual relationships (consensual and forced) complicated the purely visual sense of racial typing. As mixed-race people became more and more common and as antebellum race-based slavery and then postbellum racial segregation became central to southern society, white southerners asserted that they could rely on their other senses - touch, smell, sound, and taste - to identify who was "white" and who was not. Sensory racial stereotypes were invented and irrational, but at every turn, Smith shows, these constructions of race, immune to logic, signified difference and perpetuated inequality."--BOOK JACKET.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:200 S. Ill.
ISBN:9780807859254
9780807830024
080783002X

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