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Colonial Complexions

- Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America
Af: Sharon Block Engelsk Hardback

Colonial Complexions

- Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America
Af: Sharon Block Engelsk Hardback
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In Colonial Complexions, historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance. By analyzing more than 4,000 advertisements for fugitive servants and slaves in colonial newspapers alongside scores of transatlantic sources, she reveals how colonists transformed observable characteristics into racist reality. Building on her expertise in digital humanities, Block repurposes these well-known historical sources to newly highlight how daily language called race and identity into being before the rise of scientific racism.
In the eighteenth century, a multitude of characteristics beyond skin color factored into racial assumptions, and complexion did not have a stable or singular meaning. Colonists justified a race-based slave labor system not by opposing black and white but by accumulating differences in the bodies they described: racism was made real by marking variation from a norm on some bodies, and variation as the norm on others. Such subtle systemizations of racism naturalized enslavement into bodily description, erased Native American heritage, and privileged life history as a crucial marker of free status only for people of European-based identities.
Colonial Complexions suggests alternative possibilities to modern formulations of racial identities and offers a precise historical analysis of the beliefs behind evolving notions of race-based differences in North American history.

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In Colonial Complexions, historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance. By analyzing more than 4,000 advertisements for fugitive servants and slaves in colonial newspapers alongside scores of transatlantic sources, she reveals how colonists transformed observable characteristics into racist reality. Building on her expertise in digital humanities, Block repurposes these well-known historical sources to newly highlight how daily language called race and identity into being before the rise of scientific racism.
In the eighteenth century, a multitude of characteristics beyond skin color factored into racial assumptions, and complexion did not have a stable or singular meaning. Colonists justified a race-based slave labor system not by opposing black and white but by accumulating differences in the bodies they described: racism was made real by marking variation from a norm on some bodies, and variation as the norm on others. Such subtle systemizations of racism naturalized enslavement into bodily description, erased Native American heritage, and privileged life history as a crucial marker of free status only for people of European-based identities.
Colonial Complexions suggests alternative possibilities to modern formulations of racial identities and offers a precise historical analysis of the beliefs behind evolving notions of race-based differences in North American history.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 232
ISBN-13: 9780812250060
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0812250060
Kategori: United States of America, USA
Udg. Dato: 1 maj 2018
Længde: 23mm
Bredde: 238mm
Højde: 163mm
Forlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
Oplagsdato: 1 maj 2018
Forfatter(e): Sharon Block
Forfatter(e) Sharon Block

Kategori United States of America, USA

ISBN-13 9780812250060

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 232

Udgave

Længde 23mm

Bredde 238mm

Højde 163mm

Udg. Dato 1 maj 2018

Oplagsdato 1 maj 2018

Forlag University of Pennsylvania Press

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