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Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians

- Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana

About Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians

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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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780812223088
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 360
  • Published:
  • March 18, 2014
  • Dimensions:
  • 229x153x22 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 528 g.
Delivery: 2-4 weeks
Expected delivery: December 7, 2024

Description of Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians

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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