Kenneth A Dawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 4790191 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth A Dawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth A |
| FAMILY NAME | Dawson |
| SIGNATURE | DAWSON K A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Merced |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0568-6588 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Waterscapes and wet bodies
Waterscapes and Wet Bodies: Beach Culture in Atlantic Africa and the Diaspora, 1444-1888 considers how Atlantic Africans constructed social, cultural, and spiritual relationships with waterscapes. John Gillis’s historical analyses of human relationships with oceanic coastlines creating, what he called, “human shores” helps us consider how Atlantic Africans perceived and interacted with Atlantic shorelines, as well as shores along rivers and lakes…
The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean
Journal Article The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making Get access The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making. By Sharika D Crawford. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. xii, 204 pp. Cloth, $95.00. Paper, $27.95.) Kevin Dawson Kevin Dawson University of California, Merced, Merced, California Search for other works by this aut…
A Sea of Caribbean Islands
This article considers how maritime maroons used Atlantic networks of communication to determine which overseas locations to escape to, relying on African maritime techniques and skills as well as understanding of tropical wind patterns to escape using African-style dugout canoes, paddleboards/surfboards, and their swimming bodies to redefine their lives. Elaborating on the intellectual frameworks of Julius Scott and Epeli Hau‘ofa, this article a…
History Below the Waterline
This article considers how enslaved salvage divers cooperated and conspired with slaveholders and white employers to salvage shipwrecks and often smuggle recovered goods into homeports, permitting them to exchange their expertise for semi-independent lives of privileged exploitation. Knowing harsh treatment could preclude diving, white salvagers cultivated reciprocal relationships with divers, promoting arduousness by avoiding coercive discipline…
Storm of the Sea
Storm of the Sea: Indians and Empires in the Atlantic's Age of Sail Storm of the Sea: Indians and Empires in the Atlantic's Age of Sail. By Matthew R. Bahar. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xiv, 287 pp. $35.00.) Kevin Dawson Kevin Dawson University of California, Merced, Merced, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 106, Issue 4, March 2020, Pages 1042–104…
Enslaved Ship Pilots in the Age of Revolutions
This article considers how enslaved pilots used the coastal waters of the Anglophone-Americas during the Revolutionary Era as a cultural and political space to invert racial/social valuations and gain uncommon privileges. It examines how captives in discrete societies similarly exchanged environmental and nautical wisdom for lives of privileged exploitation. Most were owned by slaveholding-merchants, who dispatched several pilots in pilot boats t…
Black Ranching Frontiers
The study of New World slavery has become a topic of increasing scholarly attention, moving from the periphery of historical analysis to the center as we expand our understanding of both the institution of slavery and captives' experiences, especially their ability to re-create and reimagine African traditions. Andrew Sluyter's Black Ranching Frontiers considers how free and enslaved ranchers (called cowboys, vaqueros, gauchos, and other terms de…
Enslaved Swimmers and Divers in the Atlantic World
Journal Article Enslaved Swimmers and Divers in the Atlantic World Get access Kevin Dawson Kevin Dawson assistant professor of African American history at Fairfield University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 92, Issue 4, March 2006, Pages 1327–1355, https://doi.org/10.2307/4485894 Published: 01 March 2006
Judith A. Carney, Black Rice
The United States
Journal Article The United States: From Wilderness to World Power Get access The United States: From Wilderness to World Power. By Ralph Volney HarlowLondon, Cape, 1955. viii+902 pp. Illus. Maps. Index. 91⁄2′′×61⁄4′′. 50s. Kenneth Dawson Kenneth Dawson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 31, Issue 4, October 1955, Pages 549–550, https://doi.org/10.2307/2604947 Published: 01 Octobe…
Enslaved Swimmers and Divers in the Atlantic World
Journal Article Enslaved Swimmers and Divers in the Atlantic World Get access Kevin Dawson Kevin Dawson assistant professor of African American history at Fairfield University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 92, Issue 4, March 2006, Pages 1327–1355, https://doi.org/10.2307/4485894 Published: 01 March 2006
A Sea of Caribbean Islands
This article considers how maritime maroons used Atlantic networks of communication to determine which overseas locations to escape to, relying on African maritime techniques and skills as well as understanding of tropical wind patterns to escape using African-style dugout canoes, paddleboards/surfboards, and their swimming bodies to redefine their lives. Elaborating on the intellectual frameworks of Julius Scott and Epeli Hau‘ofa, this article a…
Black Ranching Frontiers
The study of New World slavery has become a topic of increasing scholarly attention, moving from the periphery of historical analysis to the center as we expand our understanding of both the institution of slavery and captives' experiences, especially their ability to re-create and reimagine African traditions. Andrew Sluyter's Black Ranching Frontiers considers how free and enslaved ranchers (called cowboys, vaqueros, gauchos, and other terms de…
The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean
Journal Article The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making Get access The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making. By Sharika D Crawford. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. xii, 204 pp. Cloth, $95.00. Paper, $27.95.) Kevin Dawson Kevin Dawson University of California, Merced, Merced, California Search for other works by this aut…
Enslaved Ship Pilots in the Age of Revolutions
This article considers how enslaved pilots used the coastal waters of the Anglophone-Americas during the Revolutionary Era as a cultural and political space to invert racial/social valuations and gain uncommon privileges. It examines how captives in discrete societies similarly exchanged environmental and nautical wisdom for lives of privileged exploitation. Most were owned by slaveholding-merchants, who dispatched several pilots in pilot boats t…
Waterscapes and wet bodies
Waterscapes and Wet Bodies: Beach Culture in Atlantic Africa and the Diaspora, 1444-1888 considers how Atlantic Africans constructed social, cultural, and spiritual relationships with waterscapes. John Gillis’s historical analyses of human relationships with oceanic coastlines creating, what he called, “human shores” helps us consider how Atlantic Africans perceived and interacted with Atlantic shorelines, as well as shores along rivers and lakes…
The United States
Journal Article The United States: From Wilderness to World Power Get access The United States: From Wilderness to World Power. By Ralph Volney HarlowLondon, Cape, 1955. viii+902 pp. Illus. Maps. Index. 91⁄2′′×61⁄4′′. 50s. Kenneth Dawson Kenneth Dawson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 31, Issue 4, October 1955, Pages 549–550, https://doi.org/10.2307/2604947 Published: 01 Octobe…
The United States
Journal Article The United States: From Wilderness to World Power Get access The United States: From Wilderness to World Power. By Ralph Volney HarlowLondon, Cape, 1955. viii+902 pp. Illus. Maps. Index. 91⁄2′′×61⁄4′′. 50s. Kenneth Dawson Kenneth Dawson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 31, Issue 4, October 1955, Pages 549–550, https://doi.org/10.2307/2604947 Published: 01 Octobe…
Judith A. Carney, Black Rice
Enslaved Swimmers and Divers in the Atlantic World
Journal Article Enslaved Swimmers and Divers in the Atlantic World Get access Kevin Dawson Kevin Dawson assistant professor of African American history at Fairfield University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 92, Issue 4, March 2006, Pages 1327–1355, https://doi.org/10.2307/4485894 Published: 01 March 2006
Enslaved Ship Pilots in the Age of Revolutions
This article considers how enslaved pilots used the coastal waters of the Anglophone-Americas during the Revolutionary Era as a cultural and political space to invert racial/social valuations and gain uncommon privileges. It examines how captives in discrete societies similarly exchanged environmental and nautical wisdom for lives of privileged exploitation. Most were owned by slaveholding-merchants, who dispatched several pilots in pilot boats t…
Black Ranching Frontiers
The study of New World slavery has become a topic of increasing scholarly attention, moving from the periphery of historical analysis to the center as we expand our understanding of both the institution of slavery and captives' experiences, especially their ability to re-create and reimagine African traditions. Andrew Sluyter's Black Ranching Frontiers considers how free and enslaved ranchers (called cowboys, vaqueros, gauchos, and other terms de…
History Below the Waterline
This article considers how enslaved salvage divers cooperated and conspired with slaveholders and white employers to salvage shipwrecks and often smuggle recovered goods into homeports, permitting them to exchange their expertise for semi-independent lives of privileged exploitation. Knowing harsh treatment could preclude diving, white salvagers cultivated reciprocal relationships with divers, promoting arduousness by avoiding coercive discipline…
Storm of the Sea
Storm of the Sea: Indians and Empires in the Atlantic's Age of Sail Storm of the Sea: Indians and Empires in the Atlantic's Age of Sail. By Matthew R. Bahar. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. xiv, 287 pp. $35.00.) Kevin Dawson Kevin Dawson University of California, Merced, Merced, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 106, Issue 4, March 2020, Pages 1042–104…
A Sea of Caribbean Islands
This article considers how maritime maroons used Atlantic networks of communication to determine which overseas locations to escape to, relying on African maritime techniques and skills as well as understanding of tropical wind patterns to escape using African-style dugout canoes, paddleboards/surfboards, and their swimming bodies to redefine their lives. Elaborating on the intellectual frameworks of Julius Scott and Epeli Hau‘ofa, this article a…
The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean
Journal Article The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making Get access The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making. By Sharika D Crawford. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020. xii, 204 pp. Cloth, $95.00. Paper, $27.95.) Kevin Dawson Kevin Dawson University of California, Merced, Merced, California Search for other works by this aut…
Waterscapes and wet bodies
Waterscapes and Wet Bodies: Beach Culture in Atlantic Africa and the Diaspora, 1444-1888 considers how Atlantic Africans constructed social, cultural, and spiritual relationships with waterscapes. John Gillis’s historical analyses of human relationships with oceanic coastlines creating, what he called, “human shores” helps us consider how Atlantic Africans perceived and interacted with Atlantic shorelines, as well as shores along rivers and lakes…
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