Technology and the logic of American racism : a cultural history of the body as evidence /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chinn, Sarah E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, 2000.
Colección:Critical research in material culture.
Temas:
Race awareness > United States > History.
Racism > United States > History.
Human body > Social aspects > United States > History.
Human body > Symbolic aspects > United States > History.
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc. > History.
Technology > Social aspects > United States > History.
Race awareness in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Conscience de race > États-Unis > Histoire.
Racisme > États-Unis > Histoire.
Corps humain > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
Corps humain > Aspect symbolique > États-Unis > Histoire.
Noirs américains > Droit > Histoire.
Technologie > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire.
Conscience de race dans la littérature.
Noirs américains dans la littérature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
African Americans in literature
African Americans > Legal status, laws, etc.
Human body > Social aspects
Human body > Symbolic aspects
Race awareness
Race awareness in literature
Race relations
Racism
Technology > Social aspects
United States > Race relations.
États-Unis > Relations raciales.
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Theorizing the body as evidence
  • A show of hands: establishing identity in Mark Twain's The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
  • Fixing identity: reading skin, seeing race
  • "Liberty's life stream": blood, race, and citizenship in World War II
  • Reading the "book of life": DNA and the meanings of identity
  • Epilogue: future bodies, present selves.

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