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.
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.
Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. History from the Bottom(s) Up 19 2. Quasheba, Mother, Queen 48 3. Her Majesty's Sable Subjects 89 4. Lost Glimpses of 1865 114 5. Sword-Bearing Citizens 142 6. "You Signed My Name But Not My Feet" 166 7. Arboreal Landscapes of Power and Resistance 187 8. Returning the Tourist Gaze 210 9. Erotic Agency and a Queer Caribbean Freedom 239 Notes 281 Works Cited 305 Index 339
Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. History from the Bottom(s) Up 19 2. Quasheba, Mother, Queen 48 3. Her Majesty's Sable Subjects 89 4. Lost Glimpses of 1865 114 5. Sword-Bearing Citizens 142 6. "You Signed My Name But Not My Feet" 166 7. Arboreal Landscapes of Power and Resistance 187 8. Returning the Tourist Gaze 210 9. Erotic Agency and a Queer Caribbean Freedom 239 Notes 281 Works Cited 305 Index 339
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