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Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America - Early American Studies Sharon Block
Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America - Early American Studies
Sharon Block
How did descriptions of individuals' appearance reinforce emergent categories of race? In Colonial Complexions, more than 4000 advertisements for runaway slaves and servants reveal how colonists transformed seemingly observable characteristics into racist reality.
232 pages, 17 illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 1, 2018 |
| ISBN13 | 9780812250060 |
| Publishers | University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Pages | 232 |
| Dimensions | 238 × 163 × 23 mm · 512 g |