How race is made slavery, segregation, and the senses / Mark M. Smith.

Author/creator Smith, Mark M., 1968-
Format Book
Publication InfoChapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006.
Description200 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects
Racism against Black people--Southern States. --History.
African Americans--Segregation.
African Americans--History. --1877-1964.
Senses and sensation--Southern States. --History.
Stereotypes (Social psychology)--Southern States. --History.
Southern States--Race relations. --History.

Contents Introduction : making sense of race -- Learning to make sense -- Fooling senses, calming crisis -- Senses reconstructed, nonsense redeemed -- Finding Homer Plessy, fixing race -- The Black mind of the South -- The Brown concertina.
Review "Based on painstaking research, how Race Is Made is a highly original, always frank, and often disturbing book. After enslaved Africans were initially brought to America, the offspring of black and white sexual relationships (consensual and forced) complicated the purely visual sense of racial typing. As mixed-race people became more and more common and as antebellum race-based slavery and then postbellum racial segregation became central to southern society, white southerners asserted that they could rely on their other senses - touch, smell, sound, and taste - to identify who was "white" and who was not. 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."--Jacket.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [141]-190) and index.
Digital Bookplate Bookplate for Gene and Susan Roberts
Acquisitions source Joyner Rare copy gift of Gene and Susan Roberts, 2016.
LCCN 2005022833
ISBN080783002X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780807830024

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