How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses

by Mark M. Smith

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For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses--not just their eyes--to construct racial difference and define race. His provocative analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century, 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. Based on painstaking research,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:080783002X

ISBN13:9780807830024

Release Date:February 2006

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Abolition African-American & Black African-American Studies Discrimination & Racism Ethnic & National History Politics & Social Sciences Race Relations Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics State & Local Textbooks

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