“An Increasing Capital in an Increasing Gang”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Paugh
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Fertility Control ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Campaign ◽  
Big Business ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Women Of African Descent ◽  
Free Women

Christian missionaries and clerics played an important, if difficult, role in the political campaign to promote monogamy and fertility in the Caribbean. Sex was big business in the Caribbean, where a hotel/prostitution industry catered to military men and island residents alike. Moreover, interracial liaisons provided opportunities for social advancement to women of African descent. Although Methodist missionaries at first tolerated polygamy among their enslaved converts, as the demographic problems in the region became politically urgent they sought increasingly to promote Christian marriage and discourage fertility control. Free women of color who resented the constraints of concubinage found Methodism particularly appealing. Evolving management strategies on the Anglican-owned Codrington plantation illustrate the pressure that Afro-Caribbean mothers faced to abandon matrifocal patterns of residence. Incentives such as land and provisions that had once been given to mothers gave way, by the 1830s, to rewards directed toward either couples or fathers.

Nharas and Morenas Horras: A Luso-African Model for the Social History of the Spanish Caribbean, c. 1570-1640

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 119-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Wheat
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Best Interests ◽  
Port Cities ◽  
Spanish Caribbean ◽  
The Social ◽  
Heads Of Household ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Free Women

AbstractDrawing on little-used archival materials held in Seville’s Archive of the Indies and ecclesiastical records from the Cathedral of Havana, this article argues that free African and African-descended women participated in Spain’s colonization of the Caribbean to a degree that has not been fully recognized. Regularly described as vecinas (heads of household) and as spouses to Iberian men in key port cities, free women of color played active roles in the formation and maintenance of Spanish Caribbean society during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, not as peripheral or marginalized figures, but as non-elite insiders who pursued their own best interests and those of their families and associates.

Fighting for Freedom

Walking Raddy ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Jessica Marie Johnson
Keyword(s):  
New Orleans ◽  
Black Community ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Enslaved Women ◽  
History Of ◽  
Women Of African Descent ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Free Women ◽  
The City

Since the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, enslaved and free women of African descent have been central to New Orleans’ culture and black community formation. Enslaved women of African descent who secured manumission—or legal documentation of their freedom—laid the foundation for the vibrant and politically savvy black community that would emerge in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The fight for freedom, however, would be long and winding, with complicated successes and failures reflecting diversity and conflict within and among women of African descent, as well as the changing geopolitical terrain the city was founded on and remained situated in throughout its long history. Recovering the voices of these early, founding women—the political and cultural ancestors of the Baby Dolls—is crucial to developing a history of women of African descent’s defiance and resistance to both racial and gendered oppression across New Orleans history.

Breast cancer survival in women of African descent living in the US and in the Caribbean: effect of place of birth

2010 ◽  
Vol 122 (2) ◽  
pp. 515-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emanuela Taioli ◽  
Allison Attong-Rogers ◽  
Penelope Layne ◽  
Veronica Roach ◽  
Camille Ragin
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cancer Survival ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Breast Cancer Survival ◽  
Place Of Birth ◽  
The Us ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Women Of African Descent

Tensions of Race, Gender, and Midwifery in Colonial Cuba

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Reid-Vazquez
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Choice ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Social ◽  
Feminine Ideals ◽  
Women Of African Descent ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Free Women

This chapter examines representations of honor, gender, race, and labor in colonial Cuba through the lens of midwifery. More specifically, it considers how free women of African descent used occupational choice as a marker of identity and honor despite the limits of race and gender within Cuba's slave society. Using the tensions surrounding local and international debates over parteras (midwives) in the nineteenth century, the chapter looks at the ways that free women of color resisted the efforts of the colonial state to diminish their participation in midwifery. It also discusses the professionalization in medicine in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and its impact on midwifery in Cuba, along with the colonial state's attempts to regulate midwives. Finally, it considers how free black and mulatto women appropriated elite discourses of honor and created a labor niche that challenged established socioracial codes of conduct. It shows that medical professionalization, feminine ideals, honor, occupational whitening, and racial denigration converged to shape the social and economic parameters for free women of African descent in colonial Cuba.

Jamaica Ladies

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Walker
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Chattel Slavery ◽  
The People ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Women Of African Descent ◽  
Free Women ◽  
Free Status ◽  
Do So

Jamaica Ladies is the first systematic study of the free and freed women of European, Euro-African, and African descent who perpetuated chattel slavery and reaped its profits in the British Empire. Their actions helped transform Jamaica into the wealthiest slaveholding colony in the Anglo-Atlantic world. Starting in the 1670s, a surprisingly large and diverse group of women helped secure English control of Jamaica and, crucially, aided its developing and expanding slave labor regime by acquiring enslaved men, women, and children to protect their own tenuous claims to status and independence. Female colonists employed slaveholding as a means of advancing themselves socially and financially on the island. By owning others, they wielded forms of legal, social, economic, and cultural authority not available to them in Britain. In addition, slaveholding allowed free women of African descent, who were not far removed from slavery themselves, to cultivate, perform, and cement their free status. Alongside their male counterparts, women bought, sold, stole, and punished the people they claimed as property and vociferously defended their rights to do so. As slavery's beneficiaries, these women worked to stabilize and propel this brutal labor regime from its inception.

Identity Politics' Issue In Indonesia Presidential Election 2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ida Susilowati ◽  
Zahrotunnimah Zahrotunnimah ◽  
Nur Rohim Yunus
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Campaign ◽  
Communist Ideology ◽  
Presidential Election Campaign ◽  
Research Analysis

AbstractPresidential Election in 2019 has become the most interesting executive election throughout Indonesia's political history. People likely separated, either Jokowi’s or Prabowo’s stronghold. Then it can be assumed, when someone, not a Jokowi’s stronghold he or she certainly within Prabowo’s stronghold. The issue that was brought up in the presidential election campaign, sensitively related to religion, communist ideology, China’s employer, and any other issues. On the other side, politics identity also enlivened the presidential election’s campaign in 2019. Normative Yuridis method used in this research, which was supported by primary and secondary data sourced from either literature and social phenomenon sources as well. The research analysis concluded that political identity has become a part of the political campaign in Indonesia as well as in other countries. The differences came as the inevitability that should not be avoided but should be faced wisely. Finally, it must be distinguished between political identity with the politicization of identity clearly.Keywords. Identity Politics, 2019 Presidential Election

Afterword

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Paugh
Keyword(s):  
Infant Mortality ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Venereal Disease ◽  
British Caribbean ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Late Nineteenth

The strategies for the management of reproduction in colonial settings that emerged during the age of abolition continued to reverberate in the British Caribbean in the mid to late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The supervision of midwives of African descent by British and white creole women, concerns about supposedly racially characteristic venereal disease, and a tendency to blame infant mortality on the sexual and parental irresponsibility of laborers, all continued to characterize governmental supervision of colonial reproduction in the Caribbean.

The Oxford Handbook of American Women's and Gender History

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Women Of Color ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Artistic Production ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Power ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Free Women

The Oxford Handbook of American Women’s and Gender History boldly interprets the history of diverse women and how ideas about gender shaped their access to political and cultural power in North America over six centuries. In twenty-nine chapters, the Handbook showcases women’s and gender history as an integrated field with its own interpretation of the past, focused on how gender influenced people’s lives as they participated in migration, colonialism, trade, warfare, artistic production, and community building. Organized chronologically and thematically, the Handbook’s six sections allow readers to consider historical continuities of gendered power as well as individual innovations and ruptures in gender systems. Theoretically cutting edge, each chapter bursts with fascinating historical characters, from young Chicanas transforming urban culture, to free women of color forging abolitionist doctrines, to Asian migrant women defending the legitimacy of their marriages, to working-class activists mobilizing international movements, to transwomen fleeing incarceration. Together, their lives constitute the history of a continent. Leading scholars from multiple generations demonstrate the power of innovative research to excavate a history hidden in plain sight. Scrutinizing silences in the historical record, from the inattention to enslaved women’s opinions to the suppression of Indian women’s involvement in border diplomacy, the authors challenge the nature of historical evidence and remap what counts in our interpretation of the past. They demonstrate a way to extend this more capacious vision of history forward, setting an intellectual agenda informed by intersectionality and transnationalism, and new understandings of sexuality.

scholarly journals Authoritarian Populism in Indonesia: The Role of the Political Campaign Industry in Engineering Consent and Coercion

2021 ◽  
pp. 186810342110278
Author(s):  
Inaya Rakhmani ◽  
Muninggar Sri Saraswati
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequalities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Political Campaign ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Young Voters ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Authoritarian Populism ◽  
The People

All around the globe, populism has become increasingly prominent in democratic societies in the developed and developing world. Scholars have attributed this rise at a response to the systematic reproduction of social inequalities entwined with processes of neoliberal globalisation, within which all countries are inextricably and dynamically linked. However, to theorise populism properly, we must look at its manifestations in countries other than the West. By taking the case of Indonesia, the third largest democracy and the largest economy in Southeast Asia, this article critically analyses the role of the political campaign industry in mobilising narratives in electoral discourses. We use the Gramscian notion of consent and coercion, in which the shaping of populist narratives relies on mechanisms of persuasion using mass and social media. Such mechanisms allow the transformation of political discourses in conjunction with oligarchic power struggle. Within this struggle, political campaigners narrate the persona of political elites, while cyber armies divide and polarise, to manufacture allegiance and agitation among the majority of young voters as part of a shifting social base. As such, we argue that, together, the narratives – through engineering consent and coercion – construct authoritarian populism that pits two crowds of “the people” against each other, while aligning them with different sections of the “elite.”

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