Sharon Block

Broschiertes Buch

Colonial Complexions

Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Sharon Block is Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine.

Produktdetails

• Early American Studies
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 364g
• ISBN-13: 9780812224924
• ISBN-10: 0812224922
• Artikelnr.: 60325179