{"id":10090,"date":"2010-11-15T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=10090"},"modified":"2015-10-29T17:48:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T17:48:33","slug":"gender-sexuality-and-the-formation-of-racial-identities-in-the-eighteenth-century-anglo-caribbean-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=10090","title":{"rendered":"Gender, Sexuality and the Formation of Racial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Caribbean World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1468-0424.2010.01613.x\" target=\"_blank\">Gender, Sexuality and the Formation of Racial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Caribbean World<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1468-0424\" target=\"_blank\">Gender &amp; History<br \/>\nVolume 22, Issue 3<\/a> (November 2010)<br \/>\npages 585\u2013602<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1468-0424.2010.01613.x\" target=\"_blank\">10.1111\/j.1468-0424.2010.01613.x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brooke N. Newman<\/strong>, John Carter Brown Library Scholar (2010-2011)<br \/>\n<em>University of Oxford<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In recent years, scholars have directed considerable attention to the influence of gender relations and sexual practices on developing racial formations in early British America, the colonial Caribbean and the wider British empire. <strong>Understanding that unauthorised intimacies in the imperial world threatened notions of Britishness at home has greatly enhanced our knowledge of the complexity and instability of the process of collective identity formation.<\/strong> Building on pioneering research in early American and British imperial history, this article charts the connection between gendered concepts of \u2018whiteness\u2019 in Anglo-Caribbean contexts and in metropolitan discourses surrounding British national identity, as articulated in eighteenth-century colonial legislation and official correspondence, popular texts and personal narratives of everyday life. It explores the extent to which the socio-sexual practices of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/British_West_Indies\" target=\"_blank\">British West Indian<\/a> whites imperilled the emerging conflation between whiteness and Britishness.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1468-0424.2010.01613.x\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gender, Sexuality and the Formation of Racial Identities in the Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Caribbean World Gender &amp; History Volume 22, Issue 3 (November 2010) pages 585\u2013602 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1468-0424.2010.01613.x Brooke N. Newman, John Carter Brown Library Scholar (2010-2011) University of Oxford In recent years, scholars have directed considerable attention to the influence of gender relations and sexual practices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,8,10],"tags":[4430,4431,2957],"class_list":["post-10090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-brooke-n-newman","tag-brooke-newman","tag-gender-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43571,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10090\/revisions\/43571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}