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Technology and the logic of American racism [electronic resource] : a cultural history of the body as evidence / Sarah E. Chinn.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical research in material culturePublication details: London ; New York : Continuum, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 233 p.)ISBN:
  • 9781847143570 (electronic bk.)
  • 1847143571 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Technology and the logic of American racism.DDC classification:
  • 305.8/00973 22
LOC classification:
  • E185.61 .C56 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-225) and index.

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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