How race is made : slavery, segregation, and the senses / / Mark M. Smith
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| Autore: |
Smith Mark M (Mark Michael), <1968->
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| Titolo: |
How race is made : slavery, segregation, and the senses / / Mark M. Smith
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2006 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.896/073075 |
| Soggetto topico: | Racism - Southern States - History |
| African Americans - Segregation | |
| African Americans - History - 1877-1964 | |
| Senses and sensation - Southern States - History | |
| Stereotypes (Social psychology) - Southern States - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Southern States Race relations History |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-190) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | How race is made |
| ISBN: | 979-88-908787-1-7 |
| 0-8078-7727-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910807763203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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