How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses
How Race Is Made investigates the sensory dimensions of race in American history. Focusing on slavery and segregation, Mark M. Smith examines how racial categories were shaped, experienced, and reinforced through perception, offering a historical perspective on the making of race.
About This Book
How Race Is Made explores the historical relationship between race, slavery, and segregation.
Mark M. Smith examines how racial ideas were experienced and reinforced through the senses.
The book considers sensory perception as an important part of understanding the construction and maintenance of racial categories.
Its subject connects American history with the study of slavery, segregation, and race.
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