Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic, McNeil, Daniel

Автор: Marks John Garrison
Название: Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery: Race, Status, and Identity in the Urban Americas
ISBN: 1643361236 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781643361239
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Prior to the abolition of slavery, thousands of African-descended people in the Americas lived in freedom. Their efforts to navigate daily life and negotiate the boundaries of racial difference challenged the foundations of white authority--and linked the Americas together. In Black Freedom in the Age of Slavery John Garrison Marks examines how these individuals built lives in freedom for themselves and their families in two of the Atlantic World's most important urban centers: Cartagena, along the Caribbean coast of modern-day Colombia, and Charleston, in the lowcountry of North America's Atlantic coast. Marks reveals how skills, knowledge, reputation, and personal relationships helped free people of color improve their fortunes and achieve social distinction in ways that undermined whites' claims to racial superiority.Built upon research conducted on three continents, this book takes a comparative approach to understanding the contours of black freedom in the Americas. It reveals in new detail the creative and persistent attempts of free black people to improve their lives and that of their families. It examines how various paths to freedom, responses to the Haitian Revolution, opportunities to engage in skilled labor, involvement with social institutions, and the role of the church all helped shape the lived experience of free people of color in the Atlantic World.As free people of color worked to improve their individual circumstances, staking claims to rights, privileges, and distinctions not typically afforded to those of African descent, they engaged with white elites and state authorities in ways that challenged prevailing racial attitudes. While whites across the Americas shared common doubts about the ability of African-descended people to survive in freedom or contribute meaningfully to society, free black people in Cartagena, Charleston, and beyond conducted themselves in ways that exposed cracks in the foundations of American racial hierarchies. Their actions represented early contributions to the long fight for recognition, civil rights, and racial justice that continues today.

Автор: Philip Kasinitz
Название: Caribbean New York: Black Immigrants and the Politics of Race
ISBN: 0801499518 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801499517
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Since 1965, West Indians have been emigrating to the United States in record numbers, and to New York City in particular. Caribbean New York shows how the new immigration is reshaping American race relations and sheds much-needed light on factors that underlie some of the city's explosive racial confrontations. Philip Kasinitz examines how two forces—racial solidarity and ethnic distinctiveness—have helped to shape the identity of New York's West Indian community. He compares "new" (post-1965) immigrants with West Indians who arrived earlier in the century, and looks in detail at the economic, political, and cultural rules that Afro-Caribbean immigrants have played in the city during each period.

Автор: McNeil Daniel
Название: Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs
ISBN: 0415893917 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415893916
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters, this book is the first to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic and gives particular attention to the construction of mixed-race femininity and masculinity during the twentieth century.

Автор: Johnson Ronald Angelo
Название: Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic World Alliance
ISBN: 0820347698 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820347691
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Описание: From 1798 to 1801, during the Haitian Revolution, President John Adams and Toussaint Louverture forged diplomatic relations that empowered white Americans to embrace freedom and independence for people of colour in Saint-Domingue. The United States supported the Dominguan revolutionaries with economic assistance and arms and munitions; the conflict was also the U.S. Navy’s first military action on behalf of a foreign ally. This cross-cultural cooperation was of immense and strategic importance as it helped to bring forth a new nation: Haiti.Diplomacy in Black and White is the first book on the Adams-Louverture alliance. Historian and former diplomat Ronald Angelo Johnson details the aspirations of the Americans and Dominguans—two revolutionary peoples—and how they played significant roles in a hostile Atlantic world. Remarkably, leaders of both governments established multiracial relationships amid environments dominated by slavery and racial hierarchy.  And though U.S.-Dominguan diplomacy did not end slavery in the United States, it altered Atlantic world discussions of slavery and race well into the twentieth century.Diplomacy in Black and White reflects the capacity of leaders from disparate backgrounds to negotiate political and societal constraints to make lives better for the groups they represent. Adams and Louverture brought their peoples to the threshold of a lasting transracial relationship. And their shared history reveals the impact of decisions made by powerful people at pivotal moments. But in the end, a permanent alliance failed to emerge, and instead, the two republics born of revolution took divergent paths.

Автор: Diemer Andrew
Название: The Politics of Black Citizenship: Free African Americans in the Mid-Atlantic Borderland, 1817-1863
ISBN: 0820349372 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820349374
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Описание: Considering Baltimore and Philadelphia as part of a larger, Mid-Atlantic borderland, The Politics of Black Citizenship shows that the antebellum effort to secure the rights of American citizenship was central to black politics—it was an effort that sought to exploit the ambiguities of citizenship and negotiate the complex national, state, and local politics in which that concept was determined.In the early nineteenth century, Baltimore and Philadelphia contained the largest two free black populations in the country, separated by a mere hundred miles. The counties that lie between them also contained large and vibrant free black populations in this period. In 1780, Pennsylvania had begun the process of outlawing slavery, while Maryland would cling desperately to the institution until the Civil War, and so these were also cities separated by the legal boundary between freedom and slavery. Despite the fact that slavery thrived in parts of the state of Maryland, in Baltimore the free black population outnumbered the enslaved so that on the eve of the Civil War there were ten times as many free blacks in the city of Baltimore as there were slaves.While free blacks in both cities found that their legal rights were tenuous, African Americans could not ignore the possible protections the law afforded them. While they employed diverse tactics in defense of their liberties (for example, physical violence and the building of autonomous black institutions), African Americans recognized the importance of public policy and of the political struggles that helped to shape it.

Автор: Hickman Jared
Название: Black Prometheus: Race and Radicalism in the Age of Atlantic Slavery
ISBN: 0190272589 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190272586
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: An innovative transnational literary study, Black Prometheus tracks the mythical figure`s surprising resonance in Anglo-American antislavery discourse from 1800 until the end of the U.S. Civil War.

Автор: Lisa Ze Winters
Название: The Mulatta Concubine: Terror, Intimacy, Freedom, and Desire in the Black Transatlantic
ISBN: 0820353841 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820353845
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Описание: Popular and academic representations of the free mulatta concubine repeatedly depict women of mixed black African and white racial descent as defined by their sexual attachment to white men, and thus they offer evidence of the means to and dimensions of their freedom within Atlantic slave societies. In The Mulatta Concubine, Lisa Ze Winters contends that the uniformity of these representations conceals the figure’s centrality to the practices and production of diaspora.</p><p>Beginning with a meditation on what captive black subjects may have seen and remembered when encountering free women of color living in slave ports, the book traces the echo of the free mulatta concubine across the physical and imaginative landscapes of three Atlantic sites: Gorée Island, New Orleans, and Saint Domingue (Haiti). Ze Winters mines an archive that includes a 1789 political petition by free men of color, a 1737 letter by a free black mother on behalf of her daughter, antebellum newspaper reports, travelers’ narratives, ethnographies, and Haitian Vodou iconography. Attentive to the tenuousness of freedom, Ze Winters argues that the concubine figure’s manifestation as both historical subject and African diasporic goddess indicates her centrality to understanding how free and enslaved black subjects performed gender, theorized race and freedom, and produced their own diasporic identities.

Автор: Robin Mitchell
Название: Venus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
ISBN: 0820354317 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820354316
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Описание: Even though there were relatively few people of colour in post-revolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire , Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country’s post-revolutionary national identity, particularly in response to the trauma of the French defeat in the Haitian Revolution. Vénus Noire explores the ramifications of this defeat by examining visual and literary representations of three black women who achieved fame in the years that followed. Sarah Baartmann, popularly known as the Hottentot Venus, represented distorted memories of Haiti in the French imagination, and Mitchell shows how her display, treatment, and representation embodied residual anger harboured by the French. Ourika, a young Senegalese girl brought to live in France by the Maréchal Prince de Beauvau, inspired plays, poems, and clothing and jewellery fads, and Mitchell examines how the French appropriated black female identity through these representations while at the same time perpetuating stereotypes of the hypersexual black woman. Finally, Mitchell shows how demonizations of Jeanne Duval, long-time lover of the poet Charles Baudelaire, expressed France’s need to rid itself of black bodies even as images and discourses about these bodies proliferated. The stories of these women, carefully contextualized by Mitchell and put into dialogue with one another, reveal a blind spot about race in French national identity that persists in the postcolonial present.

Автор: Robin Mitchell
Название: Venus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France
ISBN: 0820354325 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820354323
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Описание: Even though there were relatively few people of colour in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women appeared regularly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual depictions of black women helped to shape the country`s postrevolutionary national identity.

Автор: Dawn P. Harris
Название: Punishing the Black Body: Marking Social and Racial Structures in Barbados and Jamaica
ISBN: 0820351725 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820351728
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Описание: Uses theories of the body to detail the ways colonial states and their agents appropriated physicality to debase the black body, assert the inviolability of the white body, and demarcate the social boundaries between them.

Автор: Jessica Millward
Название: Finding Charity`s Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland
ISBN: 0820348783 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820348780
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Описание: Highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica Millward brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new means of using biography as a historical genre.

Автор: Jessica Millward
Название: Finding Charity`s Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland
ISBN: 0820331082 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820331089
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Описание: Highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated their own freedom, many of whom have been largely lost to historical records. Based on more than fifteen hundred manumission records and manuscript documents from a diversity of archives, Jessica Millward brings together African American social and gender history to provide a new means of using biography as a historical genre.