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035 _a(DE-B1597)497324
035 _a(OCoLC)1029759871
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082 0 4 _a305.800973
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aBlock, Sharon
_eautore
245 1 0 _aColonial Complexions :
_bRace and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America /
_cSharon Block.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource (232 p.) :
_b17 illus.
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490 0 _aEarly American Studies
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tIntroduction --
_tChapter 1. Complicating Humors and Rethinking Complexion --
_tChapter 2. Shaping Bodies in Print: Labor and Health --
_tChapter 3. Coloring Bodies: Naturalized Incompatibilities --
_tChapter 4. Categorizing Bodies: Race, Place, and the Pursuit of Freedom --
_tChapter 5. Written by and on the Body: Racialization of Affects and Effects --
_tEpilogue --
_tAppendix 1. Advertisements for Runaways: Sources and Methodology --
_tAppendix 2. Graphic Overview of Advertisements for Runaways --
_tAppendix 3. Newspapers with Advertisements for Runaways (1750–75) --
_tNotes --
_tIndex --
_tAcknowledgments
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn Colonial Complexions, historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance. By analyzing more than 4,000 advertisements for fugitive servants and slaves in colonial newspapers alongside scores of transatlantic sources, she reveals how colonists transformed observable characteristics into racist reality. Building on her expertise in digital humanities, Block repurposes these well-known historical sources to newly highlight how daily language called race and identity into being before the rise of scientific racism.In the eighteenth century, a multitude of characteristics beyond skin color factored into racial assumptions, and complexion did not have a stable or singular meaning. Colonists justified a race-based slave labor system not by opposing black and white but by accumulating differences in the bodies they described: racism was made real by marking variation from a norm on some bodies, and variation as the norm on others. Such subtle systemizations of racism naturalized enslavement into bodily description, erased Native American heritage, and privileged life history as a crucial marker of free status only for people of European-based identities.Colonial Complexions suggests alternative possibilities to modern formulations of racial identities and offers a precise historical analysis of the beliefs behind evolving notions of race-based differences in North American history.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
650 0 _aHuman body and language
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aHuman skin color
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aRace awareness
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 0 _aRacism
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y18th century.
650 4 _aHistory-United States.
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).
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653 _aAfrican Studies.
653 _aAfrican-American Studies.
653 _aAmerican History.
653 _aAmerican Studies.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.9783/9780812294934
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812294934
856 4 2 _3Cover
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