The Complexion of Race
Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture
In the 1723 Journal of a Voyage up the Gambia, an English narrator describes the native translators vital to the expedition's success as being Black as Coal. Such a description of dark skin color was not unusual for eighteenth-century Britons-but neither was the statement that followed: here, thro' Custom, (being Christians) they account themselves White Men. The Complexion of Race asks how such categories would have been possible, when and how such statements came to seem illogical, and how our understanding of the eighteenth century has been distorted by the imposition of nineteenth and twentieth century notions of race on an earlier period…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8122-0014-0
- EAN: 9780812200140
- Produktnummer: 13950121
- Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 384 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'826 KB
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By Roxann Wheeler
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