Colonial complexions : race and bodies in eighteenth-century America

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Block, Sharon, 1968- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018]
Series:Early American studies
Subjects:
1700-1799
Race awareness > United States > History > 18th century.
Racism > United States > History > 18th century.
Human skin color > Social aspects > United States > History > 18th century.
Human body and language > United States > History > 18th century.
Advertising, Newspaper > United States > History > 18th century.
Missing persons > United States > History > 18th century.
Fugitive slaves > United States > History > 18th century.
Advertising, Newspaper.
Fugitive slaves.
Human body and language.
Human skin color > Social aspects.
Missing persons.
Race awareness.
Race relations.
Racism.
Anzeigenwerbung
Flucht
Hautfarbe
Körper.
Rassismus
Sklave
United States > Race relations > History > 18th century.
United States.
USA.
History.

University of St. Thomas

Holdings details from University of St. Thomas
Call Number: E184.A1 B559 2018

University of Minnesota

Holdings details from University of Minnesota
Call Number: E184.A1 B559 2018

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