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How race is made : slavery, segregation, and the senses / Mark M. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Mark M. (Mark Michael), 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--Southern States--History.
- Racism.
- African Americans--Segregation.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--History--1877-1964.
- Senses and sensation--Southern States--History.
- Senses and sensation.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology)--Southern States--History.
- Stereotypes (Social psychology).
- Southern States--Race relations--History.
- Southern States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Offers an analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century, that 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction : making sense of race
- Learning to make sense
- Fooling senses, calming crisis
- Senses reconstructed, nonsense redeemed
- Finding Homer Plessy, fixing race
- The Black mind of the South
- The Brown concertina.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-190) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890878717
- 9780807877272
- 0807877271
- OCLC:
- 476237528
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