Technology and the Logic of American Racism
A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2000
256 pages
978-1-84714-357-0 (ISBN)
Description
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. Among several key American literary texts, she looks at Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, a novel whose plot turns on issues of racial identity and which was written at a time when scientific and popular interest in evidence of the body, such as fingerprinting, was at a peak.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-84714-357-0 (9781847143570)
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Technology and the Logic of American Racism
A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence
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Technology and the Logic of American Racism
A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence
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Person
Sarah E. Chinn is Director of the Women's Studies Program and assistant professor of English at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia.
Content
- Intro
- 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
- A
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- F
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