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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 Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2017]


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 Wilberforce Institute  HV 5699 B37 H3  DEPT DECISION  ASK AT DEPT

Descript xi, 257 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
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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.
ISBN 9780820351728 hardback
9780820351711 ebook
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Author Harris, Dawn P., author.
Series Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
Subject Punishment -- Barbados -- History -- 19th century.
Punishment -- Jamaica -- History -- 19th century.
Blacks -- Barbados -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Blacks -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Descript xi, 257 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
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.
ISBN 9780820351728 hardback
9780820351711 ebook
Author Harris, Dawn P., author.
Series Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
Subject Punishment -- Barbados -- History -- 19th century.
Punishment -- Jamaica -- History -- 19th century.
Blacks -- Barbados -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Blacks -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 Wilberforce Institute  HV 5699 B37 H3  DEPT DECISION  ASK AT DEPT

Subject Punishment -- Barbados -- History -- 19th century.
Punishment -- Jamaica -- History -- 19th century.
Blacks -- Barbados -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Blacks -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Descript xi, 257 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
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.
ISBN 9780820351728 hardback
9780820351711 ebook

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