Buying Whiteness - Race, Culture, and Identity from Columbus to Hip-hop (Hardcover, New)

When and why did "white people" start calling themselves "white"? When and why did "white slavery" become a paradox, and then a euphemism for prostitution? To answer such questions, Taylor begins with the auction of a "white" slave in the first African American novel, William Wells Brown's Clotel (1853), and contrasts Brown's basic assumptions about race, slavery, and sexuality with treatment of those issues in scenes of slave marketing in English Renaissance drama. From accounts of Columbus and other early European voyagers to popular English plays two centuries later, Taylor traces a paradigm shift in attitudes toward white men, and analyzes the emergence of new models of sexuality and pornography in an "imperial backwash" that affected whites as much as blacks. Moving between the English Renaissance and the "American Renaissance" of the 1850s, this original and provocative book recovers the lost interracial history of the birth of whiteness.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Signs of Race
Release date:	2005
First published:	2005
Authors:	G. Taylor
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 40mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	497
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-4039-6071-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > General
LSN:	1-4039-6071-2
Barcode:	9781403960719

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