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# Explores Atlantic World history Hardcover for lasting impact 254 pages of deep insight The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World

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## Summary

> 🌿 Smell the history, sense the power — a must-read for the culturally curious.

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## Key Features

- • **Hardcover Durability:** A premium hardcover edition designed to endure your personal or professional library.
- • **Academic Rigor & Depth:** Written at a PhD level, perfect for professionals craving intellectual challenge and nuance.
- • **Critical Cultural Insight:** Gain exclusive perspectives on how sensory perceptions enforced systemic exclusion.
- • **Profound Historical Analysis:** Delve into a meticulously researched narrative that reshapes understanding of olfactory racism.
- • **Unique Intersection of Senses & History:** Explore how smell shaped racial and social hierarchies in the Atlantic World.

## Overview

The Smell of Slavery: Olfactory Racism and the Atlantic World is a 254-page hardcover book by Andrew Kettler that offers a groundbreaking, scholarly exploration of how olfactory perceptions were weaponized to enforce racial and social hierarchies in the Atlantic World. Combining cultural history with sensory studies, this deeply researched work challenges conventional narratives and is essential reading for those seeking to understand the intersections of race, economy, and sensory experience.

## Description

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.

Review: Very thorough appraisal of the history. - Written at a Phd level- very thorough.

## Features

- Hardcover
- Language: English
- Author: Kettler, Andrew
- Number of Pages: 254

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very thorough appraisal of the history.
*by T***K on 28 November 2024*

Written at a Phd level- very thorough.

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