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Autore |
Smith Mark M (Mark Michael), <1968-> |
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Titolo |
How race is made [[electronic resource] ] : slavery, segregation, and the senses / / Mark M. Smith |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2006 |
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ISBN |
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979-88-908787-1-7 |
0-8078-7727-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (209 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Racism - Southern States - History |
African Americans - Segregation |
African Americans - History - 1877-1964 |
Senses and sensation - Southern States - History |
Stereotypes (Social psychology) - Southern States - History |
Southern States Race relations History |
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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 (p. [141]-190) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : making sense of race -- Learning to make sense -- Fooling senses, calming crisis -- Senses reconstructed, nonsense redeemed -- Finding Homer Plessy, fixing race -- The Black mind of the South -- The Brown concertina. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Offers an analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century, that 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. |
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