an act of the British Parliament in 1765 that exacted revenue from the American colonies by imposing a stamp duty on newspapers and legal and commercial documents. Colonial opposition led to the act's repeal in 1766 and helped encourage the revolutionary movement against the Crown.
Shelby remembers from her anthropology class that racial categories are determined by mental maps of reality.
Mental maps of reality is a persons point-of-view perception of their area of interaction. We all have mental maps we carry around in our heads to make sense of the geographical world around us.
