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Autore |
Chinn Sarah E |
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Titolo |
Technology and the logic of American racism [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history of the body as evidence / / Sarah E. Chinn |
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London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2000 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-29806-9 |
9786611298067 |
1-84714-357-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (252 p.) |
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Collana |
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Critical research in material culture |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Race awareness - United States - History |
Racism - United States - History |
Human body - Social aspects - United States - History |
Human body - Symbolic aspects - United States - History |
African Americans - Legal status, laws, etc - History |
Technology - Social aspects - United States - History |
Race awareness in literature |
African Americans in literature |
United States Race relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Series foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Theorizing the body as evidence; 2 A show of hands: establishing identity in Mark Twain's The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson; 3 Fixing identity: reading skin, seeing race; 4 ""Liberty's life stream"": blood, race, and citizenship in World War II; 5 Reading the ""Book of Life"": DNA and the meanings of identity; Epilogue: future bodies, present selves; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In this book, Sarah E. Chinn pulls together what seems to be opposite discourses--the information-driven languages of law and medicine and the subjective logics of racism--to examine how racial identity has been constructed in the United States over the past century. She examines a range of primary social case studies such as the American |
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