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Gender, family, race and the colonial state in early nineteenth century Jamaica

Abstract:

Recent work has emphasized the role of colonial state structures in the construction and enforcement of race and gender in the British Empire from the seventeenth century onward, particularly among people of color. But work on the parallel phenomenon of “Whiteness” has focused on White men rather than White women and children, on elites rather than those below them, and on North America rather than the Caribbean. This article, using the records of a “Clergy Fund” established in Jamaica in 179...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1163/22134360-bja10013

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
HUMS
Department:
History Faculty
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Publisher:
Brill Academic Publishers Publisher's website
Journal:
New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids Journal website
Volume:
95
Issue:
3-4
Pages:
199–222
Publication date:
2021-07-28
Acceptance date:
2021-02-01
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2213-4360
ISSN:
1382-2373
Language:
English
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1159664
Local pid:
pubs:1159664
Deposit date:
2021-02-01

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