Asaka Tropical Freedom

Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7275-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Ikuko Asaka examines emancipation's intersection with settler colonialism in North America, showing how emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied by attempts to relocate freed blacks to tropical regions, thereby conceiving freedom as a racially segregated condition based upon geography and climate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Asaka, Ikuko

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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