Colonial complexions : race and bodies in eighteenth-century America / Sharon Block.

  • Block, Sharon, 1968-
Date:
[2018]
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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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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    History of Medicine
    JQC.6.AA7

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ISBN

  • 9780812250060
  • 0812250060
  • 9780812224924
  • 0812224922