Acting as Free Men: Subaltern Masculinities and Citizenship in Postslavery Jamaica

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Maps viii
5. Introduction: Gender and Slave Emancipation in Comparative Perspective 1
6. Part I. Men, Women, Citizens
7. Masculinity, Citizenship, and the Production of Knowledge in the Postemancipation Cape Colony, 1834–1844 37
8. Négresse, Mulâtresse, Citoyenne: Gender and Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650–1848 56
9. Acting as Free Men: Subaltern Masculinities and Citizenship in Postslavery Jamaica 79
10. Women and Notions of Womanhood in Brazilian Abolitionism 99
11. A Nation’s Sin: White Women and U.S. Policy toward Freedpeople 121
12. Part II. Families, Land, and Labor
13. Family Strategies, Gender, and the Shift to Wage Labor in the British Caribbean 143
14. Gender and Emancipation in French West Africa 162
15. Two Stories of Gender and Slave Emancipation in Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, Central Cuba: A Microhistorical Approach to the Atlantic World 181
16. Libertos and Libertas in the Construction of the Free Worker in Postemancipation Puerto Rico 199
17. Part III. The Public Sphere in the Age of Emancipation
18. Philanthropy, Gender, and the Production of Public Life in Barbados, ca. 1790–ca. 1850 225
19. Young Ladies and Dissolute Women: Conflicting Views of Culture and Gender in Public Entertainment, Kingstown, St. Vincent, 1838–1888 247
20. Mulatas, Crioulos, and Morenas: Racial Hierarchy, Gender Relations, and National Identity in Postabolition Popular Song (Southeastern Brazil, 1890–1920) 267
21. The Rhetoric of Miscegenation and the Reconstruction of Race: Debating Marriage, Sex, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Arkansas 289
22. Gender and the Politics of the Household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865–1878 310
23. Bibliographic Essay 328
24. Contributors 357
25. Index 361