‘But most of all mi love me browning’: The emergence in eighteenth and nineteenth-century jamaica of the mulatto woman as the desired

Feminist Review

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 22-48

  Mohammed, Patricia ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Caribbean; Colonial desire; Gender; Jamaica; Miscegenation; Mulatto

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034343450     PISSN: 01417789     EISSN: 14664380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014177800406921     Document Type: Article

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