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Author Smith, Mark M. (Mark Michael), 1968-

Title How race is made : slavery, segregation, and the senses / Mark M. Smith.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-190) and index.
Contents Introduction : making sense of race -- Learning to make sense -- Fooling senses, calming crisis -- Senses reconstructed, nonsense redeemed -- Finding Homer Plessy, fixing race -- The Black mind of the South -- The Brown concertina.
Summary Offers an analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century, that shows how whites of all classes used the artificial binary of "black" and "white" to justify slavery and erect the political, legal, and social structure of segregation.
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Subject Racism -- Southern States -- History.
Racism.
Southern States.
History.
Southern States -- Race relations -- History.
Race relations.
African Americans -- Segregation.
African Americans -- Segregation.
African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964.
African Americans.
Chronological Term 1877-1964
Subject Senses and sensation -- Southern States -- History.
Senses and sensation.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- Southern States -- History.
Stereotypes (Social psychology)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Racism.
Other Form: Print version: Smith, Mark M. (Mark Michael), 1968- How race is made. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2006 080783002X 9780807830024 (DLC) 2005022833 (OCoLC)61278479
ISBN 9780807877272 (electronic book)
0807877271 (electronic book)
080783002X (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807830024