The Making of Racial Sentiment Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance

While we know that racial theories have been built on and engendered a range of “scientific” subdisciplines – from Lamarckianism to Social Darwinism, eugenics, degeneracy theory, anthropology, philology, and social psychology – we have not really interrogated the epistemic principles, the ways o...

Mô tả đầy đủ

Đã lưu trong:
Chi tiết về thư mục
Tác giả chính: Tawil, Ezra
Định dạng: Sách
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Cambridge University Press 2013
Những chủ đề:
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35555
Các nhãn: Thêm thẻ
Không có thẻ, Là người đầu tiên thẻ bản ghi này!
Thư viện lưu trữ: Thư viện Trường Đại học Đà Lạt
id oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-35555
record_format dspace
spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-355552014-01-19T23:46:44Z The Making of Racial Sentiment Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance Tawil, Ezra Racial Slavery While we know that racial theories have been built on and engendered a range of “scientific” subdisciplines – from Lamarckianism to Social Darwinism, eugenics, degeneracy theory, anthropology, philology, and social psychology – we have not really interrogated the epistemic principles, the ways of knowing – on which racisms rely. Folk and scientific theories of race have rarely, if ever, been about somatics alone. What is so striking as we turn to look at the epistemic principles that shaped nineteenth-century enquiries into race and sexuality is that both were founded on criteria for truth that addressed invisible coordinates of race by appealing to both visual and verbal forms of knowledge at the same time . . . Racism is not only a “visual ideology” where the visible and somatic confirms the “truth” of the self. Euro-American racial thinking related the visible markers of race to the protean hidden properties of different human kinds. Nineteenth-century bourgeois orders were predicated on these forms of knowledge that linked the visible, physiological attributes of national, class, and sexual Others to what was secreted in their depths – and none of these could be known without also designating the psychological dispositions and sensibilities that defined who and what was echte European 2013-09-16T08:37:11Z 2013-09-16T08:37:11Z 2006 Book 978-0-511-24137-6 https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35555 en application/pdf Cambridge University Press
institution Thư viện Trường Đại học Đà Lạt
collection Thư viện số
language English
topic Racial
Slavery
spellingShingle Racial
Slavery
Tawil, Ezra
The Making of Racial Sentiment Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance
description While we know that racial theories have been built on and engendered a range of “scientific” subdisciplines – from Lamarckianism to Social Darwinism, eugenics, degeneracy theory, anthropology, philology, and social psychology – we have not really interrogated the epistemic principles, the ways of knowing – on which racisms rely. Folk and scientific theories of race have rarely, if ever, been about somatics alone. What is so striking as we turn to look at the epistemic principles that shaped nineteenth-century enquiries into race and sexuality is that both were founded on criteria for truth that addressed invisible coordinates of race by appealing to both visual and verbal forms of knowledge at the same time . . . Racism is not only a “visual ideology” where the visible and somatic confirms the “truth” of the self. Euro-American racial thinking related the visible markers of race to the protean hidden properties of different human kinds. Nineteenth-century bourgeois orders were predicated on these forms of knowledge that linked the visible, physiological attributes of national, class, and sexual Others to what was secreted in their depths – and none of these could be known without also designating the psychological dispositions and sensibilities that defined who and what was echte European
format Book
author Tawil, Ezra
author_facet Tawil, Ezra
author_sort Tawil, Ezra
title The Making of Racial Sentiment Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance
title_short The Making of Racial Sentiment Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance
title_full The Making of Racial Sentiment Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance
title_fullStr The Making of Racial Sentiment Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance
title_full_unstemmed The Making of Racial Sentiment Slavery and the Birth of the Frontier Romance
title_sort making of racial sentiment slavery and the birth of the frontier romance
publisher Cambridge University Press
publishDate 2013
url https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/35555
_version_ 1819776654209187840