It takes the average reader 7 hours and 46 minutes to read Shifting Currents by Karen Eva Carr
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A deep dive into the history of aquatics that exposes centuries-old tensions of race, gender, and power at the root of many contemporary swimming controversies. Shifting Currents is an original and comprehensive history of swimming. It examines the tension that arose when non-swimming northerners met African and Southeast Asian swimmers. Using archaeological, textual, and art-historical sources, Karen Eva Carr shows how the water simultaneously attracted and repelled these northerners—swimming seemed uncanny, related to witchcraft and sin. Europeans used Africans’ and Native Americans’...
Shifting Currents by Karen Eva Carr is 456 pages long, and a total of 116,736 words.
This makes it 154% the length of the average book. It also has 143% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 37 minutes to read Shifting Currents aloud.
Shifting Currents is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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