Format:
Online-Ressource (xvii, 233 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0826447295
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9781847143570
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0826447503
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9780826447500
Series Statement:
Critical research in material culture
Content:
In this book, Sarah E. Chinn pulls together what seems to be opposite discourses--the information-driven languages of law and medicine and the subjective logics of racism--to examine how racial identity has been constructed in the United States over the past century. She examines a range of primary social case studies such as the American Red Cross' lamentable decision to segregate the blood of black and white donors during World War II, and its ramifications for American culture, and more recent examples that reveal the racist nature of criminology, such as the recent trial of O.J. Simpson. A
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Series foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; 1 Theorizing the body as evidence; 2 A show of hands: establishing identity in Mark Twain's The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson; 3 Fixing identity: reading skin, seeing race; 4 ""Liberty's life stream"": blood, race, and citizenship in World War II; 5 Reading the ""Book of Life"": DNA and the meanings of identity; Epilogue: future bodies, present selves; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780826447296
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Technology and the Logic of American Racism : A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence
Language:
English
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