Producing/contesting whiteness: Rebellion, anti-slavery and enslavement in Barbados, 1816

Geoforum

Volumn 36, Issue 1 SPEC. ISS., 2005, Pages 29-43

  Lambert, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barbados; Caribbean; Critical historical geography; Slavery; Subaltern resistance; Whiteness

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; RACE; SLAVE;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARBADOS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

EID: 11344277398     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2004.03.007     Document Type: Article

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