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“ikuko asaka”

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  • Tropical Freedom

    Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation

    by Ikuko Asaka ...
    In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka engages in a hemispheric examination of the intersection of emancipation and settler colonialism in North America. Asaka shows how from the late eighteenth century through Reconstruction, emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied by attempts to relocate freed blacks to tropical regions, as black bodies were deemed to be more ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Race and Nation in the Age of Emancipations

    by Ikuko Asaka, Celso Thomas Castilho, Gad Heuman, Martha S. Jones, Philip Kaisary, Paul J Polgar, James E Sanders, Matthew Spooner, Caree A. Banton, Andrew N. Wegmann ...
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    Over the long nineteenth century, African-descended peoples used the uncertainties and possibilities of emancipation to stake claims to freedom, equality, and citizenship. In the process, people of color transformed the contours of communities, nations, and the Atlantic World. Although emancipation was an Atlantic event, it has been studied most often in geographically isolated ways. The ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

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  • The Mighty Experiment

    Free Labor versus Slavery in British Emancipation

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  • Pursuits of Happiness

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  • Freedom's Seekers

    Essays on Comparative Emancipation

    by Jeffrey R. Kerr-Ritchie ...
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