African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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252 p, Contents: Binding mobilities of consumption -- Iconic islands : nature, landscape, and the tropical tourist gaze -- Tasting the tropics : from sweet tooth to banana wars -- Orienting the Caribbean : when East is West -- Eating others : of cannibals, vampires, and zombies -- Creolization in global culture
This article focuses on the process of "encolouring" social reality in the Caribbean. This is done by investigating how connections between status and colour were created in the Danish West Indies by using certain strategies and techniques of power. Essential to the regulatory efforts of planters and officials were three variables: time, space and body. By the manipulation of these phenomena colonial masters managed to make skin colour represent something other than itself. It came to be associated with a web of ideas concerning the constitution of society and its subjects--their status, condition and opportunities in life. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT];
