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BL
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700006
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b522195
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| Main Entry
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Chinn, Sarah E
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| Title & Author
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Technology and the logic of American racism : : a cultural history of the body as evidence /\ Sarah E. Chinn
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Continuum,, 2000
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| Series Statement
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Critical research in material culture
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xvii, 233 pages ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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0826447295
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: 0826447503
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: 9780826447296
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: 9780826447500
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-225) and index
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| Contents
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Theorizing the body as evidence -- A show of hands: establishing identity in Mark Twain's The tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson -- Fixing identity: reading skin, seeing race -- "Liberty's life stream": blood, race, and citizenship in World War II -- Reading the "book of life": DNA and the meanings of identity -- Epilogue: future bodies, present selves
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African Americans in literature
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African Americans-- Legal status, laws, etc.-- History
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Human body-- Social aspects-- United States-- History
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Human body-- Symbolic aspects-- United States-- History
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Race awareness in literature
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Race awareness-- United States-- History
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Racism-- United States-- History
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Technology-- Social aspects-- United States-- History
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United States, Race relations
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| Dewey Classification
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305.8/00973
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| LC Classification
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E185.61.C56 2000
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