How race is made : slavery, segregation, and the senses
"Based on painstaking research, how Race Is Made is a highly original, always frank, and often disturbing book. After enslaved Africans were initially brought to America, the offspring of black and white sexual relationships (consensual and forced) complicated the purely visual sense of racial typing. As mixed-race people became more and more common and as antebellum race-based slavery and then postbellum racial segregation became central to southern society, white southerners asserted that they could rely on their other senses - touch, smell, sound, and taste - to identify who was "white" and who was not. Sensory racial stereotypes were invented and irrational, but at every turn, Smith shows, these constructions of race, immune to logic, signified difference and perpetuated inequality."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2006
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ©2006
History
200 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780807830024, 9780807859254, 080783002X, 0807859257
61278479
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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