Colonial complexions : race and bodies in eighteenth-century America / Sharon Block.
- Block, Sharon, 1968-
- Date:
- [2018]
- Books
About this work
Description
"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."--From publisher.
Publication/Creation
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Physical description
217 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series
Contributors
Contents
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Complicating humors and rethinking complexion -- Chapter 2. Shaping bodies in print: labor and health -- Chapter 3. Coloring bodies: naturalized incompatibilities -- Chapter 4. Categorizing bodies: race, place, and the pursuit of freedom -- Chapter 5. Written by and on the body: racialization of affects and effects -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Languages
Subjects
- Race awarenessUnited StatesHistory18th century
- RacismUnited StatesHistory18th century
- Human skin colorSocial aspectsUnited StatesHistory18th century
- Human body and languageUnited StatesHistory18th century
- Advertising, NewspaperUnited StatesHistory18th century
- Missing personsUnited StatesHistory18th century
- Colonialism
- Racism
- Enslavement
- Human Body
- United States
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineJQC.6.AA7Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780812250060
- 0812250060
- 9780812224924
- 0812224922