Tropical freedom : climate, settler colonialism, and Black exclusion in the age of emancipation / Ikuko Asaka.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Asaka, Ikuko, 1975- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Emancipation.

Enslaved persons.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--British colonies.

Enslaved persons--Emancipation--French colonies.

Black people--Colonization--Tropics.

Black people.

Race relations.

History.

Colonization.

Black people--Colonization.

Tropics--Colonization.

Tropics.

Free Black people.

Race relations--History--18th century.

Race relations--History--19th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 291 pages : maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Engages in a hemispheric examination of the intersection of emancipation and settler colonialism in North America. The author shows how from the late eighteenth century through Reconstruction, emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied by attempts to relocate freed blacks to tropical regions, as black bodies were deemed to be more physiologically compatible with tropical climates. This logic conceived of freedom as a racially segregated condition based upon geography and climate. Regardless of whether freed people became tenant farmers in Sierra Leone or plantation laborers throughout the Caribbean, their relocation would provide whites with a monopoly over the benefits of settling indigenous land in temperate zones throughout North America. At the same time, black activists and intellectuals contested these geographic-based controls by developing alternative discourses on race and the environment. By tracing these negotiations of the transnational racialization of freedom, the author demonstrates the importance of considering settler colonialism and black freedom together while complicating the prevailing frames through which the intertwined histories of British and U.S. emancipation and colonialism have been understood.

Contents:

Black freedom and settler colonial order

Black geographies and the politics of diaspora

Intimacy and belonging

Gendered mobilities and white settler boundaries

Race, climate, and labor

U.S. emancipation and tropical black freedom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Asaka, Ikuko, 1975- author. Tropical freedom

ISBN:

9780822368816

0822368811

9780822369103

0822369109

OCLC:

968174105