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Technology and the logic of American racism : a cultural history of the body as evidence / Sarah E. Chinn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chinn, Sarah E.
- Series:
- Critical research in material culture.
- Critical research in material culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race awareness--United States--History.
- Race awareness.
- Racism--United States--History.
- Racism.
- Human body--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Human body.
- Human body--Symbolic aspects--United States--History.
- African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History.
- African Americans.
- Technology--Social aspects--United States--History.
- Technology.
- Race awareness in literature.
- African Americans in literature.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this book, Sarah E. Chinn pulls together what seems to be opposite discourses--the information-driven languages of law and medicine and the subjective logics of racism--to examine how racial identity has been constructed in the United States over the past century. She examines a range of primary social case studies such as the American Red Cross' lamentable decision to segregate the blood of black and white donors during World War II, and its ramifications for American culture, and more recent examples that reveal the racist nature of criminology, such as the recent trial of O.J. Simpson. A
- Contents:
- Contents; Series foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Theorizing the body as evidence; 2 A show of hands: establishing identity in Mark Twain's The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson; 3 Fixing identity: reading skin, seeing race; 4 ""Liberty's life stream"": blood, race, and citizenship in World War II; 5 Reading the ""Book of Life"": DNA and the meanings of identity; Epilogue: future bodies, present selves; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611298067
- 9781281298065
- 1281298069
- 9781847143570
- 1847143571
- OCLC:
- 228807227
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