| #936518 in Books | Cornell University Press | 2001-11-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.16 x.69 x6.06l,.87 | File type: PDF | 265 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent|By Michelle L. Bellows|Excellent work exploring the origins of racism in America.|8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| An intriguing, and quite compelling, look at formulation of race relations in colonial North Carolina|By Eric Hobart|Kirstin Fischer, in her book Suspect Relations, has offered the read||"Scholars now understand that ideas about class, gender, and race are products of particular historical contexts. . . . Constructions of racial difference are most successful when they appear to be both natural and immutable. Fischer's Suspect Relations descri
Over the course of the eighteenth century, race came to seem as corporeal as sex. Kirsten Fischer has mined unpublished court records and travel literature from colonial North Carolina to reveal how early notions of racial difference were shaped by illicit sexual relationships and the sanctions imposed on those who conducted them. Fischer shows how the personal―and yet often very public―sexual lives of Native American, African American, and European American women an...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Suspect Relations: Sex, Race, and Resistance in Colonial North Carolina | Kirsten Fischer. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
