Asaka Ikuko Asaka

Tropical Freedom (eBook, PDF)

Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation

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Produktbeschreibung

In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka engages in a hemispheric examination of the intersection of emancipation and settler colonialism in North America. Asaka shows how from the late eighteenth century through Reconstruction, emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied by attempts to relocate freed blacks to tropical regions, as black bodies were deemed to be more physiologically compatible with tropical climates. This logic conceived of freedom as a racially segregated condition based upon geography and climate. Regardless of whether freed people became tenant farmers in Sierra Leone or plantation laborers throughout the Caribbean, their relocation would provide whites with a monopoly over the benefits of settling indigenous land in temperate zones throughout North America. At the same time, black activists and intellectuals contested these geographic-based controls by developing alternative discourses on race and the environment. By tracing these negotiations of the transnational racialization of freedom, Asaka demonstrates the importance of considering settler colonialism and black freedom together while complicating the prevailing frames through which the intertwined histories of British and U.S. emancipation and colonialism have been understood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372752
• Artikelnr.: 54792961

Autorenporträt

Ikuko Asaka is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  vii
Note on Terms  xi
Introduction  1
1. Black Freedom and Settler Colonial Order  21
2. Black Geographies and the Politics of Diaspora  53
3. Intimacy and Belonging  81
4. Gendered Mobilities and White Settler Boundaries  111
5. Race, Climate, and Labor  139
6. U.S. Emancipation and Tropical Black Freedom  167
Conclusion  193
Notes  205
Bibliography  253
Index  281