Punishing the Black Body: Marking Social and Racial Structures in Barbados and Jamaica
(Part of the Race in the Atlantic World, 1700–1900 Series)
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Punishing the Black Body examines the punitive and disciplinary technologies and ideologies embraced by ruling white elites in nineteenth-century Barbados and Jamaica. Among studies of the Caribbean on similar topics, this is the first to look at the meanings inscribed on the raced, gendered, and classed bodies on the receiving end of punishment. Dawn P. Harris uses theories of the body to detail the ways colonial states and their agents appropriated...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:082035788X
ISBN13:9780820357881
Release Date:May 2020
Publisher:University of Georgia Press
Length:274 Pages
Weight:0.74 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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