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Author:

Harris, Dawn P., author.

Title:

Punishing the black body : marking social and racial structures in Barbados and Jamaica / Dawn P. Harris.

Publisher:

The University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

xi, 257 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Punishment--Barbados--History--19th century.
Punishment--Jamaica--History--19th century.
Blacks--Barbados--Social conditions--19th century.
Blacks--Jamaica--Social conditions--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Series:

Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900

ISBN:

0820351725
9780820351728

OCLC:

(OCoLC)981170316

LCCN:

2017014289

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)