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Download or read book Buying Whiteness (TP Edition Cancelled, See TC 1-4039-6071-2) written by Gary Taylor and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When and why did "white people" start calling themselves "white?" When and why did "white slavery" become a paradox? To answer such questions, Taylor begins with the auction of a "white" slave in the first African-American novel, William Wells Brown's Clotel (1853), and contrasts Brown's basic assumptions about race, slavery, and sexuality with treatment of those issues in scenes of slave marketing in English Renaissance drama. From accounts of Columbus and other early European voyagers to popular English theatre, fiction, and journalism three centuries later, Taylor traces a paradigm shift in attitudes toward white men, which transformed seventeenth-century art, law, science, and philosophy. Moving between the English Renaissance and the "American Renaissance" of the 1850s, this original and provocative book recovers the lost interracial history of the birth of whiteness.