How Race Is Made - Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses (Paperback, New edition)

This title shows how the five senses shaped southern racial stereotypes.For at least two centuries, argues Mark Smith, white southerners used all of their senses - not just their eyes - to construct racial difference and define race. His provocative analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century, 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.Based on painstaking research, ""How Race Is Made"" is a highly original, always frank, and often disturbing book. 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. In order to come to terms with the South's past and present, Smith says, we must explore the sensory dynamics underpinning the deeply emotional construction of race. ""How Race Is Made"" takes a bold step toward that understanding.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2008
First published:	September 2008
Authors:	Mark M. Smith
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	208
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8078-5925-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Promotions
LSN:	0-8078-5925-7
Barcode:	9780807859254

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