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Citizenship from below : erotic agency and Caribbean freedom /

This work starts with a substantial historical account of the different ways that freedom, race and gender were intertwined in Jamaica and Haiti after the end of slavery. Newly free men and women were rebound into a racialized class order with acceptable and unacceptable forms of masculinity and fem...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sheller, Mimi
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2012.
Colección:Next wave (Duke University Press)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This work starts with a substantial historical account of the different ways that freedom, race and gender were intertwined in Jamaica and Haiti after the end of slavery. Newly free men and women were rebound into a racialized class order with acceptable and unacceptable forms of masculinity and femininity. Sheller traces these histories of racialized and sexualized forms of freedom to the present.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xvii, 346 pages : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780822393825
0822393824