Technology and the Logic of American Racism
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Technology and the Logic of American Racism

A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence

  1. 256 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Technology and the Logic of American Racism

A Cultural History of the Body as Evidence

About this book

In this book, Sarah E. Chinn pulls together what seems to be opposite discourses--the information-driven languages of law and medicine and the subjective logics of racism--to examine how racial identity has been constructed in the United States over the past century. She examines a range of primary social case studies such as the American Red Cross' lamentable decision to segregate the blood of black and white donors during World War II, and its ramifications for American culture, and more recent examples that reveal the racist nature of criminology, such as the recent trial of O.J. Simpson. Among several key American literary texts, she looks at Mark Twain's Pudd'nhead Wilson, a novel whose plot turns on issues of racial identity and which was written at a time when scientific and popular interest in evidence of the body, such as fingerprinting, was at a peak.

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Information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2000
Print ISBN
9780826447500
eBook ISBN
9781847143570
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Series foreword
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Preface
  5. 1 Theorizing the body as evidence
  6. 2 A show of hands: establishing identity in Mark Twain's The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson
  7. 3 Fixing identity: reading skin, seeing race
  8. 4 "Liberty's life stream": blood, race, and citizenship in World War II
  9. 5 Reading the "Book of Life": DNA and the meanings of identity
  10. Epilogue: future bodies, present selves
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index