Technology and the logic of American racism [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history of the body as evidence / / Sarah E. Chinn
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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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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2000 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (252 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.8/00973 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Race relations |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 Red Cross' lamentable decision to segregate the blood of black and white donors during World War II, and its ramifications for American culture, and more recent examples that reveal the racist nature of criminology, such as the recent trial of O.J. Simpson. A |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Technology and the logic of American racism |
| ISBN: | 1-281-29806-9 |
| 9786611298067 | |
| 1-84714-357-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910777464503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Critical research in material culture.