How Race Is Made Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses

Name: How Race Is Made Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses
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ISBN: 9780807859254

ISBN-10: 0807859257

ISBN-13: 9780807859254

Edition: 2008

Authors: Mark M. Smith

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For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses--not just their eyes--to construct racial difference and define race. His provocative analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century, shows how whites of all classes used the artificial binary of "black" and "white" to justify slavery and erect the political, legal, and social structure of segregation. Based on painstaking research,How Race Is Madeis a highly original, always frank, and often disturbing book. After enslaved Africans were initially brought to America, the offspring of black and white sexual relationships (consensual and forced) complicated the purely visual…

Book details

List price: $32.50
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/1/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.48" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English