climate, settler colonialism, and Black exclusion in the age of emancipation
Ikuko Asaka.
Durham
Duke University Press,
2017.
(xii, 291 pages)
Black freedom and settler colonial order -- Black geographies and the politics of diaspora -- Intimacy and belonging -- Gendered mobilities and white settler boundaries -- Race, climate, and labor -- U.S. emancipation and tropical black freedom.
Ikuko Asaka examines emancipation's intersection with settler colonialism in North America, showing how emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied by attempts to relocate freed blacks to tropical regions, thereby conceiving freedom as a racially segregated condition based upon geography and climate.",,,,,"Ikuko Asaka examines emancipation's intersection with settler colonialism in North America, showing how emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied by attemptsIkuko Asaka examines emancipation's intersection with settler colonialism in North America, showing how emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied by attemptsIkuko Asaka examines emancipation's intersection with settler colonialism in North America, showing how emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied by attempts