Shades of Difference : : Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England / / Sujata Iyengar.
Was there such a thing as a modern notion of race in the English Renaissance, and, if so, was skin color its necessary marker? In fact, early modern texts described human beings of various national origins-including English-as turning white, brown, tawny, black, green, or red for any number of reaso...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 5 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I Ethiopian Histories
- Chapter 1 Pictures of Andromeda Naked
- Chapter 2 Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Bride
- Chapter 3 Masquing Race
- II Whiteness Visible
- Chapter 4 Heroic Blushing
- Chapter 5 Blackface and Blushface
- Chapter 6 Whiteness as Sexual Difference
- III Travail Narratives
- Chapter 7 Artificial Negroes
- Chapter 8 Suntanned Slaves
- Chapter 9 Experiments of Colors
- Afterword: Nancy Burson's Human Race Machine
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments