Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana (Early American Studies)

by SophieWhite (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2014

  $37.72

  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.