ISBN:
9780807859254
,
9780807830024
,
080783002X
Language:
English
Pages:
200 S.
,
Ill.
Year of publication:
2006
DDC:
305.896/073075
Keywords:
Geschichte 1877-1964
;
Geschichte
;
Noirs américains - Histoire - 1877-1964
;
Noirs américains - Ségrégation
;
Racisme - États-Unis (Sud) - Histoire
;
Sens et sensations - États-Unis (Sud) - Histoire
;
Stéréotypes - États-Unis (Sud) - Histoire
;
Geschichte
;
Schwarze. USA
;
African Americans History 1877-1964
;
African Americans Segregation
;
Racism History
;
Senses and sensation History
;
Stereotypes (Social psychology) History
;
Schwarze
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Rassismus
;
États-Unis (Sud) - Relations raciales - Histoire
;
Southern States Race relations
;
History
;
USA Südstaaten
;
USA
;
USA Südstaaten
;
Ethnische Beziehungen
;
Geschichte
;
USA Südstaaten
;
Rassismus
;
Geschichte
;
USA
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte 1877-1964
Abstract:
"Based on painstaking research, how Race Is Made is a highly original, always frank, and often disturbing book. After enslaved Africans were initially brought to America, the offspring of black and white sexual relationships (consensual and forced) complicated the purely visual sense of racial typing. As mixed-race people became more and more common and as antebellum race-based slavery and then postbellum racial segregation became central to southern society, white southerners asserted that they could rely on their other senses - touch, smell, sound, and taste - to identify who was "white" and who was not. 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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