Technology and the logic of American racism [electronic resource] : a cultural history of the body as evidence / Sarah E. Chinn.
Material type: TextSeries: 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.)
- United States -- Race relations
- 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
- African Americans
- Body, Human
- Race awareness
- Racism
- Technology
- Conscience de race -- �Etats-Unis -- Histoire
- Racisme -- �Etats-Unis -- Histoire
- Corps humain -- Aspect social -- �Etats-Unis -- Histoire
- Corps humain -- Aspect symbolique -- �Etats-Unis -- Histoire
- Noirs am�ericains -- Droit -- Histoire
- Technologie -- Aspect social -- �Etats-Unis -- Histoire
- Conscience de race dans la litt�erature
- Noirs am�ericains dans la litt�erature
- �Etats-Unis -- Relations raciales
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- 305.8/00973 22
- E185.61 .C56 2000eb
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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