A dark inheritance : blood, race, and sex in colonial Jamaica /

A major reassessment of the development of race and subjecthood in the British Atlantic Focusing on Jamaica, Britain's most valuable colony in the Americas by the mid-eighteenth century, Brooke Newman explores the relationship between racial classifications and the inherited rights and privileg...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Newman, Brooke N. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Colección:Yale scholarship online.
Temas:
1700-1799
Privilege (Social psychology)
Privilège (Psychologie sociale)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
HISTORY > Modern > 17th Century.
British colonies
Ethnic relations
Race relations
Jamaica > Ethnic relations.
Jamaica > Race relations.
Great Britain > Jamaica > Colonies.
Jamaica > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > Colonies.
Jamaïque > Relations interethniques.
Grande-Bretagne > Colonies.
Jamaïque > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Jamaica
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part One. Blood, sovereignty, and the law. The birthright of freeborn subjects
  • Blood of the father
  • Whiteness and hereditary blood status
  • Part Two. Blood, mixture, abolition, and empire. Blood ties in the colonial sexual economy
  • Enslaved women and British comic culture
  • Inheritable blood and the imperial body politic
  • Conclusion.

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