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Sophie White - Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana - 9780812223088 - V9780812223088
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Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana

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Description for Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana Paperback. 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. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 360 pages, 33 color, 17 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBBSL; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.

Based on a sweeping range of archival, visual, and material evidence, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians examines perceptions of Indians in French colonial Louisiana and demonstrates that material culture—especially dress—was central to the elaboration of discourses about race.

At the heart of France's seventeenth-century plans for colonizing New France was a formal policy—Frenchification. Intended to turn Indians into Catholic subjects of the king, it also carried with it the belief that Indians could become French through religion, language, and culture. This fluid and mutable conception of identity carried a risk: while Indians had the potential to become French, the French ... Read more

Through a sophisticated interdisciplinary approach to the material sources, Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians offers a distinctive and original reading of the contours and chronology of racialization in early America. While focused on Louisiana, the methodological model offered in this innovative book shows that dress can take center stage in the investigation of colonial societies—for the process of colonization was built on encounters mediated by appearance.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Series
Early American Studies
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812223088
SKU
V9780812223088
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Ref
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About Sophie White
Sophie White is Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Reviews for Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana
"An important book. . . White's work challenges prevailing understandings about how ideas of race took hold and exemplifies how material objects, maybe even more so than archival sources, can tell a story that complicates prevailing notions about the multicultural societies that comprised colonial America."—American Historical Review "White does an admirable job of integrating clothing into a larger discussion of ... Read more

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