The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture

The Complexion of Race Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture Roxann Wheeler "A substantial contribution to the investigation of the concept of 'race' as a determinant of identity in the eighteenth century. Wheeler convincingly demonstrates that the contemporary inclination to frame questions of personal and social identity in terms of a binary opposition of white and black has been anachronistically applied to the eighteenth century, when 'multiplicity'--the use of ...