Complexion of Race Catagories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture

Name: Complexion of Race Catagories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture
Price: 18.7 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780812217223

ISBN-10: 0812217225

ISBN-13: 9780812217223

Edition: 2000

Authors: Roxann Wheeler

List price: $32.50

This item qualifies for FREE shipping.

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy new: $38.34

Marketplace

4 new & used from $18.70

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

In the 1723 Journal of a Voyage up the Gambia, an English narrator describes the native translators vital to the expedition's success as being "Black as Coal." Such a description of dark skin color was not unusual for eighteenth-century Britons--but neither was the statement that followed: "here, thro' Custom, (being Christians) they account themselves White Men." The Complexion of Race asks how such categories would have been possible, when and how such statements came to seem illogical, and how our understanding of the eighteenth century has been distorted by the imposition of nineteenth and twentieth century notions of race on an earlier period. Wheeler traces the emergence of skin…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 6/12/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Roxann Wheeler teaches English at Ohio State University.



List of Illustrations


Introduction. The Empire of Climate: Categories of Race in Eighteenth-Century Britain



Christians, Savages, and Slaves: From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic



Racializing Civility: Violence and Trade in Africa



Romanticizing Racial Difference: Benevolent Subordination and the Midcentury Novel



Consuming Englishness: On the Margins of Civil Society



The Politicization of Race: The Specter of the Colonies in Britain


Epilogue. Theorizing Race and Racism in the Eighteenth Century


Notes


Index


Acknowledgments