Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana

$24.95

ISBN: 9780812223088
Dewey: 976.302
LCC Number: F380.F8W55 2012
Author: Sophie White
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Pages: 360
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Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians offers a distinctive and original reading of racialization in early America.Focusing on cultural cross-dressing from a wide range of sources, Sophie White shows that material culture-especially dress-was central to discourses about race, as colonization was built on encounters mediated by appearance.

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