Tropical Freedom
Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4744644 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gale Kenny (Barnard College, New York, New York), Gale L Kenny (Barnard College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 105 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 690-691 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jahist/jay346 |
| OpenAlex | W2906454339 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka offers a trenchant reinterpretation of British and American emancipations and black emigration. Asaka brings American studies critical theories of racialization, mobility, and settler colonialism to this transnational history of how emancipation spurred a geographical and climate-based racial essentialism. Asaka traces the genealogy of what she terms “tropical black freedom,” the idea that people of African descent would only thrive in places seen as tropical (p. 17). Through a geographical reach that includes Canada, the United States, the West Indies, and West Africa, Asaka shows how this logic was integral to a colonialist discourse justifying pioneering whites' providential destiny to claim indigenous lands in so-called temperate regions. At the same time, she examines how black activists in Canada and the northern United States deployed various “politics of mobility” that could either challenge or reinforce the “association of whiteness and settler status” (p. 138). Tropical Freedom provides a compelling response to scholarly debates about the importance of black colonization schemes to American emancipation by instead showing how deeply black freedom depended upon colonialism
Archaeology · Colonialism · Emancipation · Ethnology · Geography · Indigenous · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Racialization · Racism · Sociology · Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Ecology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |