Tag: Jamaica

  • Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present Routledge: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures 2010-10-21 204 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-39808-4 Sarah Salih, Professor of English University of Toronto This study considers cultural representations of “brown” people in Jamaica and England alongside the determinations of race by statute from the…

  • Children of Uncertain Fortune: Mixed-Race Migration from the West Indies to Britain, 1750-1820 The University of Michigan 2010 481 pages Daniel Alan Livesay, Assistant Professor of History Drury University, Springfield, Missouri A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (History) in The University of Michigan 2010 This dissertation shows…

  • Navigating Racial Boundaries: The One-Drop Rule and Mixed-Race Jamaicans in South Florida Florida International University 2010 343 pages Sharon E. Placide A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Comparitive Sociology Like many West Indians, mixed-race Jamaican immigrants enter the United States with fluid notions about…

  • “A gallant heart to the empire.” Autoethnography and Imperial identity in Mary Seacole’s Wonderful Adventures Philological Quarterly Volume 83, Number 2, Spring, 2004 Sarah Salih, Professor of English University of Toronto A portrait of Mary Seacole in oils, c. 1869, by the obscure London artist Albert Charles Challen (1847–81). The original was discovered in 2003…

  • Patterns of Mixed-Race Migration to Britain in the Eighteenth-Century Black Atlantic American Historical Association 124th Annual Meeting Friday, 2010-01-08 15:10 PST (Local Time) Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego Manchester Ballroom F (Hyatt) San Diego, California Daniel Alan Livesay, Assistant Professor of History Drury University, Springfield, Missouri With tremendous gender and racial disparities, miscegenation and interracial…

  • ‘But most of all mi love me browning’: The Emergence in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Jamaica of the Mulatto Woman as the Desired Feminist Review(on-Line) Volume 65, Issue 1 June 2000 pages 22 – 48 DOI: 10.1080/014177800406921 Patricia Mohammed, Head and Lecturer Centre for Gender and Development Studies, Mona Unit University of the West Indies, Kingston,…

  • Belonging to Britain The Munk Centre for International Studies University of Toronto 2008-11-14 Video Length: 00:46:36 Hazel V. Carby, Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of African American Studies Yale University In her lecture, “Belonging to Britain”, Hazel Carby looks at the historic relationship between England and Jamaica, including the history of the slave…

  • The Woman of Colour Broadview Press 2007-01-01 268 pages Paperback ISBN: 9781551111766 / 1551111764 Written by: Anonymous Edited by: Lyndon J. Dominique, Assistant Professor of English Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania The Woman of Colour is a unique literary account of a black heiress’ life immediately after the abolition of the British slave trade. Olivia Fairfield,…

  • Racial Thinking in the United States: Uncompleted Independence University of Notre Dame Press 2004 376 pages Cloth ISBN 10: 0-268-04103-2 Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-268-04103-8 Paper ISBN 10: 0-268-04104-0 Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-268-04104-5 Edited by: Paul Spickard, Professor of 20th Century U.S. Social and Cultural History University of California, Santa Barbara G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of…