{"id":53883,"date":"2017-05-12T02:36:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T02:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53883"},"modified":"2017-05-12T02:36:36","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T02:36:36","slug":"privileging-kinship-family-and-race-in-eighteenth-century-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53883","title":{"rendered":"Privileging Kinship: Family and Race in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/eam.2016.0025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Privileging Kinship: Family and Race in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journal\/322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Early American Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/issue\/35274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Volume 14, Number 4, Fall 2016<\/a><br \/>\npages 688-711<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1353\/eam.2016.0025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10.1353\/eam.2016.0025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmc.edu\/academic\/faculty\/profile\/daniel-livesay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Daniel Livesay<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California<\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the long eighteenth century, elite free people of color in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jamaica<\/a> petitioned the government for exemptions to some of the island\u2019s laws against those with African ancestry. In making these appeals, they highlighted advanced social and financial positions that put them above the average Jamaican of color. But perhaps most important, these petitions noted familial relations to white men on the island. These kinship connections were central in determining if a free person of color was deserving enough to receive \u201cprivileged\u201d rights. In bestowing these privileges, Jamaican officials demonstrated that one\u2019s racial status on the island was determined, in part, by familial linkages to white colonists. Although only a fraction of mixed-race Jamaicans gained these legal exemptions, the practice nevertheless reveals how important family relation was in constructing racial identities, even in a place built on racialized oppression and slavery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the long eighteenth century, elite free people of color in Jamaica petitioned the government for exemptions to some of the island\u2019s laws against those with African ancestry. In making these appeals, they highlighted advanced social and financial positions that put them above the average Jamaican of color.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,459,1467,8,6940],"tags":[4177,154,26973,26972,80],"class_list":["post-53883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-history","category-law","category-media-archive","category-slavery","tag-daniel-a-livesay","tag-daniel-livesay","tag-early-american-studies","tag-early-american-studies-an-interdisciplinary-journal","tag-jamaica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53883","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=53883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53884,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53883\/revisions\/53884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}