LEADER 04756nam 22008535 450 001 9910781884203321 005 20210108162723.0 010 $a1-283-21062-2 010 $a9786613210623 010 $a0-8122-0014-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812200140 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051284 035 $a(OCoLC)759158231 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10491982 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000543317 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11324886 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000543317 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10531126 035 $a(PQKB)11428906 035 $a(DE-B1597)445288 035 $a(OCoLC)979741003 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812200140 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441525 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051284 100 $a20190708d2010 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Complexion of Race $eCategories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture /$fRoxann Wheeler 210 1$aPhiladelphia : $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, $d[2010] 210 4$dİ2000 215 $a1 online resource (382 p.) 225 0 $aNew Cultural Studies 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-1722-5 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tIntroduction: The Empire of Climate -- $tChapter 1. Christians, Savages, and Slaves -- $tChapter 2. Racializing Civility -- $tChapter 3. Romanticizing Racial Difference -- $tChapter 4. Consuming Englishness -- $tChapter 5. The Politicization of Race -- $tEpilogue: Theorizing Race and Racism in the Eighteenth Century -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn 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 color as a predominant marker of identity in British thought and juxtaposes the Enlightenment's scientific speculation on the biology of race with accounts in travel literature, fiction, and other documents that remain grounded in different models of human variety. As a consequence of a burgeoning empire in the second half of the eighteenth century, English writers were increasingly preoccupied with differentiating the British nation from its imperial outposts by naming traits that set off the rulers from the ruled; although race was one of these traits, it was by no means the distinguishing one. In the fiction of the time, non-European characters could still be "redeemed" by baptism or conversion and the British nation could embrace its mixed-race progeny. In Wheeler's eighteenth century we see the coexistence of two systems of racialization and to detect a moment when an older order, based on the division between Christian and heathen, gives way to a new one based on the assertion of difference between black and white. 606 $aSOCIAL SCIENCE$2bisac 606 $aSociology / General$2bisac 606 $aRace awareness$xHistory$y18th century$zGreat Britain 606 $aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism$y18th century 606 $aDifference (Psychology)$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aRace in literature 606 $aRegions & Countries - Europe$2HILCC 606 $aHistory & Archaeology$2HILCC 606 $aGreat Britain$2HILCC 610 $aAnthropology. 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aEuropean History. 610 $aFolklore. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aLinguistics. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aWorld History. 615 7$aSOCIAL SCIENCE 615 7$aSociology / General 615 0$aRace awareness$xHistory 615 0$aEnglish fiction$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aDifference (Psychology)$xHistory 615 0$aRace in literature 615 7$aRegions & Countries - Europe 615 7$aHistory & Archaeology 615 7$aGreat Britain 676 $a305.8/00941/09033 686 $aMS 3530$2rvk 700 $aWheeler$b Roxann, $01575541 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781884203321 996 $aThe Complexion of Race$93852578 997 $aUNINA