Roxann Wheeler
The complexion of race
Roxann Wheeler · 2010
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Wheeler (English, Ohio State U.) compares Enlightenment science's speculations on human variety in natural history with accounts in civil histories, travel literature, and fiction, finding that black skin was not the most damning characteristic used by Brits to elevate themselves above the colonized. While Brits did prize paleness, Wheeler shows th.
Book details
- Year
- 2010
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Editions
- 2
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN
- 9780812200140
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