Buying Whiteness

Race, Culture, and Identity from Columbus to Hip-hop

By:

G. Taylor

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Hardback

Series:

Signs of Race

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When and why did "white people" start calling themselves "white"? When and why did "white slavery" become a paradox, and then a euphemism for prostitution? To answer such questions, Gary Taylor begins with the auction of a "white" slave in the first African American novel, William Wells Brown's "Clotel" 1853), and contrasts Brown's basic assumptions about race, slavery and sexuality with the treatment of those issues in scenes of slave marketing in English Renaissance drama. From accounts of Columbus and other early European voyagers to popular English plays two centuries later, Taylor traces a paradigm shift in attitudes toward white men and analyses the emergence of new models of sexuality and pornography in an "imperial backwash" that affected whites as much as blacks. Moving between the English Renaissance and the "American Renaissance" of the 1850s, this book recovers the lost interracial history of the birth of whiteness.

Author Biography:

GARY TAYLOR is director of the Hudson Strode Renaissance Center at the University of Alabama and is a major figure in early modern literature criticism and cultural studies. His previous books include Castration (Routledge) and Oxford is publishing his new edition of the works of Middleton. He is one of the series editors of the Signs of Race series.

Release date NZ

January 31st, 2005

Author

G. Taylor

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

XII, 497 p.

Pages

497

Series

Signs of Race

Dimensions

138x216x40

ISBN-13

9781403960719

Product ID

2431529

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