Buying Whiteness: Race, Sex and Slavery from the English Renaissance to African-American Literature (Signs of Race)

by Gary Taylor (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2003

  $157.18

  From accounts of Columbus and other early European voyagers to popular English plays two centuries later, Taylor traces a paradigm shift in attitudes toward white men, and analyzes the emergence of new models of sexuality and pornography in an 'imperial backwash' that affected whites as much as blacks.