Chapter 19. “Black Skin, White Mask?”: Race, Class, and the Politics of Dress in Victorian Jamaican Society, 1837–1901

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xix
5. Introduction 1
6. OBJECT LESSONS
7. Introduction to Object Lessons 51
8. 1. The Cruickshank Lock, circa 1838 55
9. 2. Table, circa 1830–1840 59
10. 3. A Tread-Mill Scene in Jamaica, 1837 61
11. 4. Sligoville with Mission Premises, 1843 63
12. 5. A View of Coke Chapel from the Parade, circa 1846–1847 67
13. 6. The Ordinance of Baptism, 1843 69
14. 7. Kidd’s New Plan of the City of Kingston, Jamaica, 1854 73
15. 8. Grave of Eighty Rebels near Morant Bay, Jamaica, 1865 77
16. 9. Map Recording the Rebellion of 1865 79
17. 10. Vale of St. Thomas, Jamaica, 1867 83
18. 11. Newcastle, Jamaica, 1884 85
19. 12. Opening the Railway Line at Porus, 1885 89
20. 13. Day School Children, Jamaica, circa 1900 91
21. 14. Wedding Group, Jamaica, circa 1900 95
22. 15. Child’s Outdoor Cap. Lace-bark, circa 1850–1861 97
23. 16. Grandmother on Mother’s Side, circa 1895–1905 99
24. 17. Mary Seacole, 1871 103
25. 18. Fatima, circa 1886 105
26. 19. Selection of Jamaican Wood Samples Made for the 1891 Exhibition 109
27. 20. Illustration of an Obeah Figure, 1893 111
28. 21. Castleton Gardens, 1908 115
29. 22. Queen Victoria, 1915 117
30. PART I. MAKING VICTORIAN SUBJECTS
31. Chapter 1. State Formation in Victorian Jamaica 125
32. Chapter 2. Victorian Jamaica: The View from the Colonial Office 139
33. Chapter 3. Liberalism, Colonial Power, Subjectivities, and the Technologies of Pastoral Coloniality: The Jamaican Case 156
34. Chapter 4. Dirt, Disease, and Difference in Victorian Jamaica: The Politics of Sanitary Reform in the Milroy Report of 1852 174
35. Chapter 5. Creating Good Colonial Citizens: Industrial Schools and Reformatories in Victorian Jamaica 190
36. Chapter 6. Botany in Victorian Jamaica 209
37. Chapter 7. Victorian Sport in Jamaica, 1863–1909 240
38. Chapter 8. Rewriting the Past: Imperial Histories of the Antislavery Nation 263
39. PART II. VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURES
40. Chapter 9. Land, Labor, Landscape: Views of the Plantation in Victorian Jamaica 281
41. Chapter 10. The Duperly Family and Photography in Victorian Jamaica 322
42. Chapter 11. Noel B. Livingston’s Gallery of Illustrious Jamaicans 357
43. Chapter 12. Picturing South Asians in Victorian Jamaica 395
44. Chapter 13. Victorian Furniture in Jamaica 420
45. Chapter 14. Jamaica’s Victorian Architectures, 1834–1907 439
46. Chapter 15. Creole Architecture in Victorian Jamaica 474
47. Chapter 16. “Keeping Alive Before the People’s Eyes This Great Event”: Kingston’s Queen Victoria Monument 493
48. Chapter 17. “A Period of Exhibitions”: World’s Fairs, Museums, and the Laboring Black Body in Jamaica 523
49. PART III. RACE, PERFORMANCE, RITUAL
50. Chapter 18. “Most Intensely Jamaican”: The Rise of Brown Identity in Jamaica 553
51. Chapter 19. “Black Skin, White Mask?”: Race, Class, and the Politics of Dress in Victorian Jamaican Society, 1837–1901 577
52. Chapter 20. Kumina: A Spiritual Vocabulary of Nationhood in Victorian Jamaica 602
53. Chapter 21. Jamaican Performance in the Age of Emancipation 622
54. Chapter 22. Black Jamaica and the Victorian Musical Imaginary 641
55. Chapter 23. “A Mysterious Murder”: Considering Jamaican Victorianism 658
56. Contributors 675
57. Index 685