Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World. By Patricia Akhimie

If modern strategies of race, and of policing race, in America are about answering the expectations of power—being where is expected, living where is expected, acting as is expected—Patricia Akhimie's Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference: Race and Conduct in the Early Modern World demonstrates how the regulation and restriction of human subjects in early modern England produced race. Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference shows a world in which behavior is not the mere byproduct of race but one of its principal terms of formulation. The Cultural Politics of Blood, 1500–1900 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015); The Routledge Companion to Women, Sex, and Gender in the Early British Colonial World (2018); a special Spenser Studies volume on "Spenser and Race" (2021); and the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Race in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age, 1350–1550 (2021).