Race and Transatlantic Identities

ISBN-13: 9780415792530 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 156 str.

Elizabeth T. Kenney; Sirpa Salenius; Whitney Womack Smith

Opis

The essays in Race and Transatlantic Identities use literature, history, visual arts, material culture, music, and dance to explore the definition and redefinition of racial identities through transatlantic encounters and cultural exchanges in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The articles in this book were originally published in the Journal of Transatlantic Studies.

Spis treści

Introduction – Blurring boundaries: race and transatlantic identities in culture and society  1. The vitriolic blood of a Negro: the development of racial identity and Creole elitism in New Spain and Spanish Louisiana, 1763-1803  2. ‘I am the only woman!’: the racial dimensions of patriarchy and the containment of white women in James Hakewill’s A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica . . . (1825)  3. Fictional space and taxonomies of race in the Bahamas: mapping American identity in the early Republic  4. Two heads of the same drum? Musical narratives within a transatlantic religion  5. ‘A sound that is missing’: writing Africa in the Anglophone Caribbean  6. Troubling the white supremacy–black inferiority paradigm: Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown in Europe 7. ‘Blind Tom’ abroad: race, disability, and transatlantic representations of Thomas Wiggins  8. Discursive encounters: dance, inscription, and modern identities in interwar Paris  9. Black dagoes? Italian immigrants’ racial status in the United States: an ecological view  10. Reading ‘things’ in Italian-America