Punishing the Black Body : Marking Social and Racial Structures in Barbados and Jamaica /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Harris, Dawn P. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Schwarze
Leibesstrafe
Kolonialismus
Gesellschaftsordnung
Freiheitsstrafe
Punishment.
Black people > Social conditions.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Black people > Jamaica > Social conditions > 19th century.
Black people > Barbados > Social conditions > 19th century.
Punishment > Jamaica > History > 19th century.
Punishment > Barbados > History > 19th century.
Jamaika
Barbados
Jamaica.
Barbados.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: colonial body politics: linking the punished body to the British West Indian social order
  • Six-legged women and derby's dose: the white imagination and narratives of bad bodies and good punishments
  • The persistence of corporeality: the apprentice's punished body and the maintenance of the socio-racial structure in Barbados and Jamaica, 1834-1838
  • The entanglements of freedom: bodies of laws and their role in the reinforcement of the socio-racial order
  • Confined spaces, constrained bodies: land, labor, and confinement in Barbados after 1834
  • Enclosing contagion: aberrant bodies and penal confinement in Jamaica
  • The punished black body and the public's gaze: demarcating socio-racial structures through the theatrics of punishment
  • The difference that gender makes: punishment and the gendered body in post-emancipation Jamaica and Barbados
  • Epilogue: final thoughts on what it means to punish black bodies.

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