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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
9780826447500
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95665536
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Bioengineering, Economic Sociology
Author
Sarah E. Chinn
Publication Name
Technology and the Logic of American Racism: a Cultural History of the Body As Evidence
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Sciences, Anthropology
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Weight
430g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Sarah E. Chinn
Series Title
Critical Research in Material Culture
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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