How Race Is Made

Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8078-5925-4
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 366 g

This title shows how the five senses shaped southern racial stereotypes.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, ""How Race Is Made"" is a highly original, always frank, and often disturbing book. 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. In order to come to terms with the South's past and present, Smith says, we must explore the sensory dynamics underpinning the deeply emotional construction of race. ""How Race Is Made"" takes a bold step toward that understanding.

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Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is author or editor of six previous books, including <i>Listening to Nineteenth-Century America</i> (from The University of North Carolina Press) and <i>Stono: Documenting and Interpreting a Slave Revolt</i>.