Joan Flores-Villalobos
Biographic Data
| ID | 707574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joan Flores-Villalobos |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joan |
| FAMILY NAME | Flores-Villalobos |
| SIGNATURE | FLORES-VILLALOBOS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6052-3936 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Illicit Intimacies of Thomasin Brathwaite: Care and Survival in a Post-Emancipation Barbados Prison
Our Country: Extractive Colonialism and Labor in the Essequibo Borderland
This article examines the long history of claims over the Essequibo territory (now the Venezuela-Guyana border), focused on the late nineteenth-century gold rush and the ensuing diplomatic battles that culminated in the boundary arbitration trial of 1899 that formally settled today's borders. Reading across British and Venezuelan sources, including travel accounts, newspapers, British Colonial Office records, and Venezuelan Ministry of the Interi…
A Black Woman's History of the Panama Canal
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Everyday Politics of Care in US Empire
This article is a response to Premilla Nadasen's “Care, Profit, and the Politics of Race” from the historical perspective of Black migrant West Indian women during the Panama Canal construction in the early twentieth century
Chelsea Schields. Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean
Thrift, Morality, and Migration in the Barbados Savings Bank
There has been little historiographical attention to working-class banking in the Caribbean. This article adds to the scholarship by considering the founding and use of the Barbados Savings Bank by working-class Black Barbadians. Colonial administrators hoped the bank would teach formerly enslaved Barbadians how to properly transition into the free wage labor force and sought to encourage household arrangements dependent on a male breadwinner who…
Reputación, racismo, género y honor en las cortes municipales de la Ciudad de Panamá, 1914-1917
Objective/Context: To analyze the elements that constituted the category of “honor” in Panama City during the period following the construction of the Canal, concerning race and gender; and to understand how migrant West Indian women negotiated these expectations of honor. Methodology: The research stems from an analysis of Panamanian legal codes to define “honor” as a socio-cultural construct and to understand moral anxieties about West Indian i…
Gender, Race, and Migrant Labor in the “Domestic Frontier” of the Panama Canal Zone
The cover of Maid in Panama depicts a West Indian higgler as a “mammy.” Her skin is an exaggerated ink-black, her body is large, her face round, and she wears a servant's uniform, including headscarf and apron. The higgler walks across an open field carrying a tray of tropical fruits on her head, with a background of palm trees, a placid river, and fluffy clouds
Freak Letters
This essay explores the archival presence of West Indian women in the archives of the Isthmian Canal Commission, the biggest repository of original documents regarding the construction of the Panama Canal. Using a 1909 photograph of a nude black West Indian woman found in a file labeled "Freak Letters," it considers the difficulties of recovering historical subjects structured by imperial frameworks of productivity and perversity, tracing instead…
Freak Letters
This essay explores the archival presence of West Indian women in the archives of the Isthmian Canal Commission, the biggest repository of original documents regarding the construction of the Panama Canal. Using a 1909 photograph of a nude black West Indian woman found in a file labeled "Freak Letters," it considers the difficulties of recovering historical subjects structured by imperial frameworks of productivity and perversity, tracing instead…
Gender, Race, and Migrant Labor in the “Domestic Frontier” of the Panama Canal Zone
The cover of Maid in Panama depicts a West Indian higgler as a “mammy.” Her skin is an exaggerated ink-black, her body is large, her face round, and she wears a servant's uniform, including headscarf and apron. The higgler walks across an open field carrying a tray of tropical fruits on her head, with a background of palm trees, a placid river, and fluffy clouds
Freak Letters
This essay explores the archival presence of West Indian women in the archives of the Isthmian Canal Commission, the biggest repository of original documents regarding the construction of the Panama Canal. Using a 1909 photograph of a nude black West Indian woman found in a file labeled "Freak Letters," it considers the difficulties of recovering historical subjects structured by imperial frameworks of productivity and perversity, tracing instead…
Gender, Race, and Migrant Labor in the “Domestic Frontier” of the Panama Canal Zone
The cover of Maid in Panama depicts a West Indian higgler as a “mammy.” Her skin is an exaggerated ink-black, her body is large, her face round, and she wears a servant's uniform, including headscarf and apron. The higgler walks across an open field carrying a tray of tropical fruits on her head, with a background of palm trees, a placid river, and fluffy clouds
Reputación, racismo, género y honor en las cortes municipales de la Ciudad de Panamá, 1914-1917
Objective/Context: To analyze the elements that constituted the category of “honor” in Panama City during the period following the construction of the Canal, concerning race and gender; and to understand how migrant West Indian women negotiated these expectations of honor. Methodology: The research stems from an analysis of Panamanian legal codes to define “honor” as a socio-cultural construct and to understand moral anxieties about West Indian i…
Thrift, Morality, and Migration in the Barbados Savings Bank
There has been little historiographical attention to working-class banking in the Caribbean. This article adds to the scholarship by considering the founding and use of the Barbados Savings Bank by working-class Black Barbadians. Colonial administrators hoped the bank would teach formerly enslaved Barbadians how to properly transition into the free wage labor force and sought to encourage household arrangements dependent on a male breadwinner who…
A Black Woman's History of the Panama Canal
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Everyday Politics of Care in US Empire
This article is a response to Premilla Nadasen's “Care, Profit, and the Politics of Race” from the historical perspective of Black migrant West Indian women during the Panama Canal construction in the early twentieth century
Chelsea Schields. Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean
The Illicit Intimacies of Thomasin Brathwaite: Care and Survival in a Post-Emancipation Barbados Prison
Our Country: Extractive Colonialism and Labor in the Essequibo Borderland
This article examines the long history of claims over the Essequibo territory (now the Venezuela-Guyana border), focused on the late nineteenth-century gold rush and the ensuing diplomatic battles that culminated in the boundary arbitration trial of 1899 that formally settled today's borders. Reading across British and Venezuelan sources, including travel accounts, newspapers, British Colonial Office records, and Venezuelan Ministry of the Interi…
Caribbean history, culture, and politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (4 works) · Cuban History and Society (4 works) · History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)