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

ISBN-13: 9780820351728 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 274 str.

Dawn Harris

Opis

Examines the punitive and disciplinary technologies and ideologies embraced by ruling white elites in nineteenth-century Barbados and Jamaica. Dawn P. Harris uses theories of the body to detail the ways colonial states and their agents appropriated physicality to debase the black body, assert the inviolability of the white body, and demarcate the social boundaries between them.