Title Technology and the logic of American racism : a cultural history of the body as evidence / Sarah E. Chinn.

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Stacks	E185.61 .C56 2000	Available	---

Description	xvii, 233 pages ; 25 cm.
Series	Critical research in material culture
	Critical research in material culture.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225) and index.
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.
Subject	United States -- Race relations.
	United States.
	Race relations.
	Race awareness -- United States -- History.
	Race awareness.
	History.
	Racism -- United States -- History.
	Racism.
	Human body -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
	Human body -- Social aspects.
	Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- United States -- History.
	Human body -- Symbolic aspects.
	African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- History.
	African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
	Technology -- Social aspects -- United States -- History.
	Technology -- Social aspects.
	Race awareness in literature.
	Race awareness in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	African Americans in literature.
	Racism.
ISBN	0826447295
	0826447503 paperback