Race and Transatlantic Identities
Race and Transatlantic Identities provides a rich overview of the complex relationship between the construction of race and transatlantic identity as expressed in a variety of cultural forms, refracted through different disciplinary and critical perspectives, and manifested at different historical moments. Spanning a period from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the contributions provide a panorama of the wealth and variety of contemporary approaches to grappling with notions of race in a transatlantic context, raising questions about the permanence and fixity of racial boundaries. The volume, which focuses on the cultural sites where individuals construct and express their racial identities in the context of those boundaries, also explores strategies through which those boundaries are defined and redefined. The collection conducts this inquiry by juxtaposing essays on literature, history, visual arts, material culture, music, and dance in ways that encourage the reader to engage with concepts across traditional disciplinary boundaries.
The articles in this book were originally published in the Journal of Transatlantic Studies.
Elizabeth T. Kenney is an Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at Salem State University, MA, USA. She researches New England women and transatlantic cultural exchanges.
Sirpa Salenius is a Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland. Her research examines gender, race, and identity in the transatlantic context.
Whitney Womack Smith is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Writing at Miami University of Ohio, USA. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century transatlantic womens writing, especially issues of class, race, and authorship.
Race and Transatlantic Identities
Race and Transatlantic Identities provides a rich overview of the complex relationship between the construction of race and transatlantic identity as expressed in a variety of cultural forms, refracted through different disciplinary and critical perspectives, and manifested at different historical moments. Spanning a period from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, the contributions provide a panorama of the wealth and variety of contemporary approaches to grappling with notions of race in a transatlantic context, raising questions about the permanence and fixity of racial boundaries. The volume, which focuses on the cultural sites where individuals construct and express their racial identities in the context of those boundaries, also explores strategies through which those boundaries are defined and redefined. The collection conducts this inquiry by juxtaposing essays on literature, history, visual arts, material culture, music, and dance in ways that encourage the reader to engage with concepts across traditional disciplinary boundaries.
The articles in this book were originally published in the Journal of Transatlantic Studies.
Elizabeth T. Kenney is an Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at Salem State University, MA, USA. She researches New England women and transatlantic cultural exchanges.
Sirpa Salenius is a Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland. Her research examines gender, race, and identity in the transatlantic context.
Whitney Womack Smith is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Writing at Miami University of Ohio, USA. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century transatlantic womens writing, especially issues of class, race, and authorship.
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Contents
Citation Information
The following chapter was originally published in the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, volume 13, issue 2 (2015). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for the article, as follows:
Chapter 1
The vitriolic blood of a Negro: the development of racial identity and Creole elitism in New Spain and Spanish Louisiana, 17631803
Andrew N. Wegmann
Journal of Transatlantic Studies, volume 13, issue 2 (2015), pp. 204225
The following chapters were originally published in the Journal of Transatlantic Studies, volume 14, issue 2 (2016). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 2
I am the only woman!: the racial dimensions of patriarchy and the containment of white women in James Hakewills A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica (1825)
Charmaine A. Nelson
Journal of Transatlantic Studies, volume 14, issue 2 (2016), pp. 126138
Chapter 3
Fictional space and taxonomies of race in the Bahamas: mapping American identity in the early Republic
Elizabeth Kenney
Journal of Transatlantic Studies, volume 14, issue 2 (2016), pp. 139151
Chapter 6
Troubling the white supremacyblack inferiority paradigm: Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown in Europe
Sirpa Salenius
Journal of Transatlantic Studies, volume 14, issue 2 (2016), pp. 152163
Chapter 7
Blind Tom abroad: race, disability, and transatlantic representations of Thomas Wiggins
Whitney Womack Smith
Journal of Transatlantic Studies, volume 14, issue 2 (2016), pp. 164175
Chapter 8
Discursive encounters: dance, inscription, and modern identities in interwar Paris
Tayana L. Hardin
Journal of Transatlantic Studies, volume 14, issue 2 (2016), pp. 176187
Chapter 9
Black dagoes? Italian immigrants racial status in the United States: an ecological view
