Colonial Complexions : : Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America / / Sharon Block.
In 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...
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Early American Studies
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 17 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Complicating Humors and Rethinking Complexion
- Chapter 2. Shaping Bodies in Print: Labor and Health
- Chapter 3. Coloring Bodies: Naturalized Incompatibilities
- Chapter 4. Categorizing Bodies: Race, Place, and the Pursuit of Freedom
- Chapter 5. Written by and on the Body: Racialization of Affects and Effects
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1. Advertisements for Runaways: Sources and Methodology
- Appendix 2. Graphic Overview of Advertisements for Runaways
- Appendix 3. Newspapers with Advertisements for Runaways (1750–75)
- Notes
- Index
- Acknowledgments