Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America / Leslie A. Schwalm.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023Copyright date: ©[2023]Description: 1 online resource (232 pages): illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781469672717
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Contents:
Militarizing race -- Commissioning race -- Narrating and enumerating race -- Anatomizing race -- The afterlife of race.
Summary: "Diving deeply into the tables and statistics, specimens, skull collections, reports, questionnaires, and surveys that make up the recently organized and newly available records of the United States Sanitary Commission, Leslie A. Schwalm reveals the racial project of the Civil War as it unfolded in Northern white medical and scientific organizations. Despite the Civil War's importance as a watershed moment in the country's history of anti-Blackness, Union victory and the abolition of slavery did not dislodge the racial hierarchies and ideas about people of African descent that had existed before the war"-- Provided by publisher.
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Militarizing race -- Commissioning race -- Narrating and enumerating race -- Anatomizing race -- The afterlife of race.

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"Diving deeply into the tables and statistics, specimens, skull collections, reports, questionnaires, and surveys that make up the recently organized and newly available records of the United States Sanitary Commission, Leslie A. Schwalm reveals the racial project of the Civil War as it unfolded in Northern white medical and scientific organizations. Despite the Civil War's importance as a watershed moment in the country's history of anti-Blackness, Union victory and the abolition of slavery did not dislodge the racial hierarchies and ideas about people of African descent that had existed before the war"-- Provided by publisher.

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