| Description |
1 online resource (x, 263 pages). |
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text txt rdacontent |
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computer c rdamedia |
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online resource cr rdacarrier |
| Series |
Cultural front |
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Cultural front (Series)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from e-book title screen (JSTOR platform, viewed April 19, 2017). |
| Summary |
"In the mid-nineteenth-century United States, as it became increasingly difficult to distinguish between bodies understood as black, white, or Indian; able-bodied or disabled; and male or female, intense efforts emerged to define these identities as biologically distinct and scientifically verifiable in a literally marked body. Combining literary analysis, legal history, and visual culture, Ellen Samuels traces the evolution of the "fantasy of identification"--The powerful belief that embodied social identities are fixed, verifiable, and visible through modern science. From birthmarks and fingerprints to blood quantum and DNA, she examines how this fantasy has circulated between cultural representations, law, science, and policy to become one of the most powerfully institutionalized ideologies of modern society."--Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
Introduction: The crisis of identification -- part 1. Fantasies of Fakery. Ellen Craft's masquerade ; Confidence in the nineteenth century ; The disability con onscreen -- part 2. Fantasies of Marking. The trials of Salomé Müller ; Of fiction and fingerprints -- part 3. Fantasies of Measurement. Proving disability ; Revising blood quantum ; Realms of biocertification ; DNA and the readable self -- Conclusion: Future identifications. |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Identification -- Social aspects.
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Group identity.
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Identity (Psychology)
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Disabilities.
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Identification -- Aspect social.
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Identité collective.
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Identité (Psychologie)
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Handicap.
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group identity.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Disabilities
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Group identity
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Identity (Psychology)
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Samuels, Ellen (Ellen Jean). Fantasies of identification 9781479812981 9781479859498 (DLC) 2013042415 (OCoLC)863195403 |
| ISBN |
9781479855049 (electronic bk.) |
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1479855049 (electronic bk.) |
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9781479812981 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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1479812986 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9781479859498 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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1479859494 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.18574/9781479855049 doi |
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AU@ 000055966414 |
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CHNEW 000712177 |
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DEBSZ 449422992 |
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DEBSZ 493141685 |
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NZ1 16231866 |
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