Buying Whiteness: Race, Culture, and Identity from Columbus to Hip-Hop

by Gary Taylor

Book Overview

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, 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 treatment of those issues in scenes of slave marketing in English...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403960712
• ISBN13: 9781403960719
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 497 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.4" x 9.7"