{"product_id":"buying-whiteness-g-taylor-9781403960719","title":"Buying Whiteness: Race, Culture, and Identity from Columbus to Hip-Hop","description":"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 Renaissance drama. From accounts of Columbus and other early European voyagers to popular English plays two centuries later, Taylor traces a paradigm shift in attitudes toward white men, and analyzes the emergence of new models of sexuality and pornography in an 'imperial backwash' that affected whites as much as blacks. Moving between the English Renaissance and the 'American Renaissance' of the 1850s, this original and provocative book recovers the lost interracial history of the birth of whiteness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e G. Taylor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1403960712\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781403960719\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 497\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.66h x 6.36w x 1.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2005 pg. 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Issues Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2006 pg. 27","brand":"G. Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44064565788927,"sku":"9781403960719","price":129.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_737d5d9b-5518-4d6a-8327-6176c8c21ea1.jpg?v=1685396239","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/buying-whiteness-g-taylor-9781403960719","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}