How race is made

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"Based on painstaking research, how Race Is Made is a highly original, always frank, and often disturbing book. After enslaved Africans were initially brought to America, the offspring of black and white sexual relationships (consensual and forced) complicated the purely visual sense of racial typing. As mixed-race people became more and more common and as antebellum race-based slavery and then postbellum racial segregation became central to southern society, white southerners asserted that they could rely on their other senses - touch, smell, sound, and taste - to identify who was "white" and who was not. Sensory racial stereotypes were invented and irrational, but at every turn, Smith shows, these constructions of race, immune to logic, signified difference and perpetuated inequality."--Jacket.

subjects: History,  African Americans,  Race relations,  Segregation,  Senses and sensation,  Stereotype (Psychology),  Racism,  Stereotypes (Social psychology),  Sens et sensations,  Racisme,  Ethnische Beziehungen,  Rassismus,  African American Studies,  Schwarze,  Noirs americains,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Histoire,  Su˜dstaaten,  Ethnic Studies,  Stereotypes,  Relations raciales,  African americans, segregation,  African americans, history,  Southern states, race relations,  Southern states, history,  Social psychology

Places: Southern States

Times: 1877-1964