Book Detail

Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America

ISBN: 9780812250060

Contributors: Block, Sharon (Author)

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018

Binding: Hardcover (Readerbound Available)

Retail: $99.95

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Description

How did descriptions of individuals' appearance reinforce emergent categories of race? In <i>Colonial Complexions</i>, more than 4000 advertisements for runaway slaves and servants reveal how colonists transformed seemingly observable characteristics into racist reality.

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