Fingerprints and blood signs; changing faces; blood in black and white; black brains and bloody gloves.
Sarah E. Chinn is Director of the Women's Studies Program and assistant professor of English at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia.
"Technology and The Logic of American Racism is important not only
for its analysis of racism in the US but also for its exploration
of the relationships among the languages of science, law,
literature and popular journalism. Chinn's work shows that students
of the humanities have a significant contribution to make to the
study of the impact of historical and contemporary scientific
developments on the shape of US culture"--Priscilla Wald, Duke
University
"Lucid, eloquent, well-researched, and thoughtful. Chinn provides
astute commentary on novels by Twain, Larsen, Thurman, Okada, and
Hazlip and provocative analysis of palmistry, the 1924 Rhinelander
case, the segregation of the national blood supply by race during
the 1940s, black responses to rhetoric that linked blood and
citizenship during WWII, and the recent Sally Hemmings controversy.
But Chinn's study goes far beyond these examples, providing some of
the clearest thinking available on the relationship between bodies
and culture. The argument is never reductive. With impressive
grace, the author manages both to reveal how bodies have been made
to testify...and to be conscious of 'the gingerliness, respect,
strength, edginess, and tenderness with which we should approach
our own bodies and the bodies of others, whether in words,
concepts, or touch highly recommended for all academic
collections." --Choice, September 2001
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