Thelma Wills Foote
Biographic Data
| ID | 1479561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thelma Wills Foote |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thelma Wills |
| FAMILY NAME | Foote |
| SIGNATURE | FOOTE T W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“One and the Same Interest”
This chapter shows that the disciplinary mechanism of antiblack racism became a key instrument of governance in colonial New York City. It notes that New York City's Slave Revolt of 1712 was the act of unculturated native Africans and other slaves, who from their own distinctive worldviews, regarded colonial New York's institution of slavery as an unjust social relation. It demonstrates the specter of interracial sexual desire, especially in hous…
“We Shall Never Be Quite Safe”
This chapter investigates examples of insubordination, ranging from the unruly behavior of the city's laboring class in the streets, marketplaces, dock areas, and taverns to the remarkable bids for freedom on the part of runaway servants and slaves. It points out that the largely unregulated population flows moving in and out of the port of New York compounded the problem of policing the city's servile population. It notes that the British war po…
Introduction “The Angel Would Like to Stay, Awaken the Dead, and Make Whole What Has Been Smashed”
This book shows that racialized subjects are formations that arise out of historically specific projects and strategic relations of power — in this case study, the early modern project of colony building on Manhattan Island and its relations of colonial domination. This introductory chapter narrates that during the early modern era of European expansion and the emergence of the capitalist world system, Manhattan Island became a crossroads for the…
“To Better People Their Land, and to Bring the Country to Produce More Abundantly”
This chapter tracks the Dutch colonization project of Manhattan Island from 1624 to 1664 and shows that following the Dutch invasion, Manhattan Island became a dynamic zone of cross-cultural contact and polyvalent relations of power between WIC officials, natives, settlers, and slaves. It reveals that colonial New York City's pluralism — its demographic and sociocultural diversity — was a direct product of the project of colony building.
“Nothing That Is Necessary Is to Be Discouraged”
This chapter tracks the project of colony building on Manhattan Island following the English takeover of the North American territory previously called New Netherland and renamed New York. It shows that the labor imperatives of colony building produced a pattern of widespread slave ownership. It adds that the colonization project on Manhattan Island, in town and in the surrounding countryside, resulted in a mixed system of labor that combined sla…
“The Most Natural View of the Whole”
This chapter reveals that, by the 1740s, interracial socializing among colonial New York City's subaltern population of enslaved blacks, propertyless white servants, and transients troubled ruling elite and its binary racial division of society. It explains that with the additional threat of an impending Spanish invasion, the aggravation of an unsolved crime wave, and the outbreak of a mysterious rash of fire during the winter of 1741-42, fear of…
Epilogue: “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
This chapter discusses the abolition of slavery in the United States. It notes that the civil rights amendments were promulgated to protect the liberty of recently emancipated black citizens and their descendants. It explains that race no longer means something biological, but something political that race thinking continues to operate as a seemingly indispensable way of knowing the world.
A Difference amongst Ourselves”
This chapter stresses that the English Crown relied on surrogates to project its sovereignty to the English overseas colonies. Colonial administrators, clergymen, missionaries, and schoolmasters undertook the assignment of transplanting English institutions of governance and English-derived cultural institutions and systems of representation in the colonial frontier.
“The Happiness of Liberty of Which I Knew Nothing Before”
This chapter shows that the final split between the English colonial rulers and settlers in British North America provided passports to freedom for runaway slaves, who during the white American War for independence deserted their passport masters. It provides a historical analysis of the formation of the binary racial division that arose out of the project of colony building on Manhattan Island during the early modern era and took shape in articu…
Black and White Manhattan
Race first emerged as an important ingredient of New York City's melting pot when it was known as New Amsterdam and was a fledgling colonial outpost on the North American frontier. This book details the arrival of the first immigrants, including African slaves, and traces encounters between the town's inhabitants of African, European, and Native American descent, showing how racial domination became key to the building of the settler colony at th…
Music of African Americans in California
Book Review| February 01 2000 Music of African Americans in California Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los AngelesClora BryantBuddy ColletteWilliam GreenSteven IsoardiJack KelsonHorace TapscottGerald WilsonMarl YoungCalifornia Soul: Music of African Americans in the WestJacqueline Cogdell DjeDjeEddie S. Meadows Thelma Wills Foote Thelma Wills Foote Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review …
The Black Intellectual, Recent Curricular Reforms, and the Discourse of Collective Identity
Research Article| May 01 1993 The Black Intellectual, Recent Curricular Reforms, and the Discourse of Collective Identity Thelma Wills Foote Thelma Wills Foote Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (56): 51–57. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1993-56-51 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Thelma Wills Foote; The Black Intellectual, Recent Curricular Refo…
Black and White Manhattan
Race first emerged as an important ingredient of New York City's melting pot when it was known as New Amsterdam and was a fledgling colonial outpost on the North American frontier. This book details the arrival of the first immigrants, including African slaves, and traces encounters between the town's inhabitants of African, European, and Native American descent, showing how racial domination became key to the building of the settler colony at th…
The Black Intellectual, Recent Curricular Reforms, and the Discourse of Collective Identity
Research Article| May 01 1993 The Black Intellectual, Recent Curricular Reforms, and the Discourse of Collective Identity Thelma Wills Foote Thelma Wills Foote Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1993) 1993 (56): 51–57. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1993-56-51 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Thelma Wills Foote; The Black Intellectual, Recent Curricular Refo…
Music of African Americans in California
Book Review| February 01 2000 Music of African Americans in California Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los AngelesClora BryantBuddy ColletteWilliam GreenSteven IsoardiJack KelsonHorace TapscottGerald WilsonMarl YoungCalifornia Soul: Music of African Americans in the WestJacqueline Cogdell DjeDjeEddie S. Meadows Thelma Wills Foote Thelma Wills Foote Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review …
“One and the Same Interest”
This chapter shows that the disciplinary mechanism of antiblack racism became a key instrument of governance in colonial New York City. It notes that New York City's Slave Revolt of 1712 was the act of unculturated native Africans and other slaves, who from their own distinctive worldviews, regarded colonial New York's institution of slavery as an unjust social relation. It demonstrates the specter of interracial sexual desire, especially in hous…
“We Shall Never Be Quite Safe”
This chapter investigates examples of insubordination, ranging from the unruly behavior of the city's laboring class in the streets, marketplaces, dock areas, and taverns to the remarkable bids for freedom on the part of runaway servants and slaves. It points out that the largely unregulated population flows moving in and out of the port of New York compounded the problem of policing the city's servile population. It notes that the British war po…
Introduction “The Angel Would Like to Stay, Awaken the Dead, and Make Whole What Has Been Smashed”
This book shows that racialized subjects are formations that arise out of historically specific projects and strategic relations of power — in this case study, the early modern project of colony building on Manhattan Island and its relations of colonial domination. This introductory chapter narrates that during the early modern era of European expansion and the emergence of the capitalist world system, Manhattan Island became a crossroads for the…
“To Better People Their Land, and to Bring the Country to Produce More Abundantly”
This chapter tracks the Dutch colonization project of Manhattan Island from 1624 to 1664 and shows that following the Dutch invasion, Manhattan Island became a dynamic zone of cross-cultural contact and polyvalent relations of power between WIC officials, natives, settlers, and slaves. It reveals that colonial New York City's pluralism — its demographic and sociocultural diversity — was a direct product of the project of colony building.
“Nothing That Is Necessary Is to Be Discouraged”
This chapter tracks the project of colony building on Manhattan Island following the English takeover of the North American territory previously called New Netherland and renamed New York. It shows that the labor imperatives of colony building produced a pattern of widespread slave ownership. It adds that the colonization project on Manhattan Island, in town and in the surrounding countryside, resulted in a mixed system of labor that combined sla…
“The Most Natural View of the Whole”
This chapter reveals that, by the 1740s, interracial socializing among colonial New York City's subaltern population of enslaved blacks, propertyless white servants, and transients troubled ruling elite and its binary racial division of society. It explains that with the additional threat of an impending Spanish invasion, the aggravation of an unsolved crime wave, and the outbreak of a mysterious rash of fire during the winter of 1741-42, fear of…
Epilogue: “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”
This chapter discusses the abolition of slavery in the United States. It notes that the civil rights amendments were promulgated to protect the liberty of recently emancipated black citizens and their descendants. It explains that race no longer means something biological, but something political that race thinking continues to operate as a seemingly indispensable way of knowing the world.
A Difference amongst Ourselves”
This chapter stresses that the English Crown relied on surrogates to project its sovereignty to the English overseas colonies. Colonial administrators, clergymen, missionaries, and schoolmasters undertook the assignment of transplanting English institutions of governance and English-derived cultural institutions and systems of representation in the colonial frontier.
“The Happiness of Liberty of Which I Knew Nothing Before”
This chapter shows that the final split between the English colonial rulers and settlers in British North America provided passports to freedom for runaway slaves, who during the white American War for independence deserted their passport masters. It provides a historical analysis of the formation of the binary racial division that arose out of the project of colony building on Manhattan Island during the early modern era and took shape in articu…
Black and White Manhattan
Race first emerged as an important ingredient of New York City's melting pot when it was known as New Amsterdam and was a fledgling colonial outpost on the North American frontier. This book details the arrival of the first immigrants, including African slaves, and traces encounters between the town's inhabitants of African, European, and Native American descent, showing how racial domination became key to the building of the settler colony at th…
Sociology (11 works) · History (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Genealogy (8 works) · Race, History, and American Society (8 works) · Colonialism (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Geography (5 works)