Crossings and encounters : race, gender, and sexuality in the Atlantic world

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Label

Crossings and encounters : race, gender, and sexuality in the Atlantic world

Title remainder

race, gender, and sexuality in the Atlantic world

Statement of responsibility

edited by Laura R. Prieto and Stephen R. Berry

Contributor

• Prieto, Laura R., 1968-
• Berry, Stephen Russell, 1970-

Editor

• Berry, Stephen Russell, 1970-
• Prieto, Laura R., 1968-

Subject

• Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
• Atlantic Ocean Region -- Race relations | History
• Sex -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History

Language

eng

Summary

"For centuries the Atlantic world has been a site of encounter and exchange, a rich point of transit where one could remake one's identity or find it transformed. Through this interdisciplinary collection of essays, Laura R. Prieto and Stephen R. Berry offer vivid new accounts of how individuals remapped race, gender, and sexuality through their lived experience and in the cultural imagination. Crossings and Encounters is the first single volume to address these three intersecting categories across the Atlantic world and beyond the colonial period. The Atlantic world offered novel possibilities to and exposed vulnerabilities of many kinds of people, from travelers to urban dwellers, native Americans to refugees. European colonial officials tried to regulate relationships and impose rigid ideologies of gender, while perceived distinctions of culture, religion, and ethnicity gradually calcified into modern concepts of race. Amid the instabilities of colonial settlement and slave societies, people formed cross-racial sexual relationships, marriages, families, and households. These not only afforded some women and men with opportunities to achieve stability; they also furnished ways to redefine one's status. Crossings and Encounters spans broadly from early contact zones in the seventeenth-century Americas to the postcolonial present, and it covers the full range of the Atlantic world, including the Caribbean, North America, and Latin America. The essays examine the historical intersections between race and gender to illuminate the fluid identities and the dynamic communities of the Atlantic world"--

Member of

• Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world

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Provided by publisher

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

• The Carolina lowcountry and the Atlantic world
• JSTOR eBooks