Colonial Complexions: Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America

by Sharon Block

Book Overview

In Colonial Complexions, historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance. By analyzing more than 4,000 advertisements for fugitive servants and slaves in colonial newspapers alongside scores of transatlantic sources, she reveals how colonists transformed observable characteristics into racist reality. Building on her expertise in digital humanities, Block repurposes these...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812224922
• ISBN13: 9780812224924
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"