Author:

Chinn, Sarah E  Search this

Physical description:

xvii, 233 p. ; 24 cm

Type:

Books

Place:

United States

Date:

2000

Contents:

Theorizing the body as evidence -- A show of hands: establishing identity in Mark Twain's The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson -- Fixing identity: reading skin, seeing race -- "Liberty's life stream": blood, race, and citizenship in World War II -- Reading the "book of life": DNA and the meanings of identity -- Epilogue: future bodies, present selves

Topic:

Race awareness--History  Search this

Racism--History  Search this

Human body--Social aspects--History  Search this

Human body--Symbolic aspects--History  Search this

African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc--History  Search this

Technology--Social aspects--History  Search this

Race awareness in literature  Search this

African Americans in literature  Search this

Race relations  Search this

Call number:

E185.61 .C56 2000X

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_619666