... This chapter focuses on tenements, cockroaches, and fantasies of superiority to other people and difference from cockroaches, and how this “evolved,” from the early mid-twentieth century to the 1970s, in two stories: racing cockroaches on a dining room table, and racing motorcycles across hills...

... to and refractive of instability in social and cultural norms around race at that time. blackface racist caricature jazz violence black popular culture ...

... Chapter 1 argues that it was the medieval Roman Church’s pastoral “government of souls,” its management of the flock of Christendom through a regime of instruction, inspection, confession, and interrogation, that provided the governmental tool kit through which “race” would eventually...

... Race and Blackness emerged during European expansion in the Atlantic to justify the exploitation of Africans within the triangular trade and plantation system, just as later laws of racial superiority underwrote colonialism. Yet the concept of race has always been unstable within European...

...Race and the Law ...