| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Preface : Making scents of the Middle Passage -- Introduction : Pecunia non olet -- The primal scene : ethnographic wonder and aromatic discourse -- Triangle trading on the pungency of race -- Ephemeral Africa : essentialized odors and the slave ship -- "The sweet smell of vengeance" : olofactory resistance in the Atlantic world -- Conclusion : Race, nose, truth |
| Summary |
In the Atlantic World, different groups were aromatically classified in opposition to other ethnic, gendered, and class assemblies due to an economic necessity that needed certain bodies to be defined as excremental, which culminated in the creation of a progressive tautology that linked Africa and waste through a conceptual hendiadys born of capitalist licentiousness. The African subject was defined as a scented object, appropriated as filthy to create levels of ownership through discourse that marked African peoples as unable to access spaces of Western modernity. Embodied cultural knowledge was potent enough to alter the biological function of the five senses to create a European olfactory consciousness made to sense the African other as foul. Fascinating, informative, and deeply researched, The Smell of Slavery exposes that concerns with pungency within the Western self were emitted outward upon the freshly dug outhouse of the mass slave grave called the Atlantic World |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Slavery -- Social aspects -- Atlantic Ocean Region
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Smell -- Social aspects -- History
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Odor -- Social aspects -- History
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Black people -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- Social conditions
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Slave trade -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
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Racism -- History
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Black people -- Social conditions
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Race relations
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Racism
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Slave trade
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Slavery -- Social aspects
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Smell -- Social aspects
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| SUBJECT |
Atlantic Ocean Region -- Race relations -- History
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| Subject |
Atlantic Ocean Region
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019057478 |
| ISBN |
9781108854740 |
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1108854745 |
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9781108848275 |
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1108848273 |
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