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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.

Publication Info. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2017.
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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900
Race in the Atlantic world, 1700-1900.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Punishment -- Barbados -- History -- 19th century.
Punishment.
Barbados.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Punishment -- Jamaica -- History -- 19th century.
Jamaica.
Black people -- Barbados -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Black people.
Social conditions.
Black people -- Jamaica -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Harris, Dawn P. Punishing the black body. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2017 9780820351728 (DLC) 2017014289 (OCoLC)981170316
ISBN 9780820351711 (electronic book)
0820351717 (electronic book)
9780820351728
0820351725

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