Shifting Currents is an original and comprehensive history of
swimming. It examines the tension that arose when non-swimming
northerners met African and Southeast Asian swimmers. Using
archaeological, textual and art historical sources, Karen Eva Carr
shows how the water simultaneously attracted and repelled these
northerners - swimming seemed uncanny, related to witchcraft and
sin. Europeans used Africans' and Native Americans' swimming skills
to justify enslaving them, but northerners also wanted to claim
water's power for themselves. They imagined that swimming would
bring them health and demonstrate their scientific modernity. This
unresolved tension still sexualizes women's swimming and
marginalizes Black and Indigenous swimmers today. The history of
swimming is a new lens through which to gain a clearer view of
race, gender and power on a centuries-long scale.
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