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Katherine Johnston, "The Nature of Slavery: Environment and Plantation Labor in the Anglo-Atlantic World" (Oxford UP, 2022)

New Books in African American Studies

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The Black White Dichotomy in Race and Climate

As a graduate student, I was really interested in basically the development of categories of bodily difference. And so race was a big one of those and I sort of thought, well, how is it that we got to this place where we think we have this idea of race? The book contrasts what's said and written publicly with what's written privately.

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