Race and Transatlantic Identities

Elizabeth T. Kenney is Assistant Dean for Research and Graduate Studies at Salem State University, MA, USA. She researches New England women and transatlantic cultural exchanges.Sirpa Salenius is a Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland. Her research examines gender, race, and identity in the transatlantic context.Whitney Womack Smith is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Writing at Miami University of Ohio, USA. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century transatlantic women’s writing, especially issues of class, race, and authorship.

• Introduction – Blurring boundaries: race and transatlantic identities in culture and society 1. The vitriolic blood of a Negro: the development of racial identity and Creole elitism in New Spain and Spanish Louisiana, 1763-1803 2. ‘I am the only woman!’: the racial dimensions of patriarchy and the containment of white women in James Hakewill’s A Picturesque Tour of the Island of Jamaica . . . (1825) 3. Fictional space and taxonomies of race in the Bahamas: mapping American identity in the early Republic 4. Two heads of the same drum? Musical narratives within a transatlantic religion 5. ‘A sound that is missing’: writing Africa in the Anglophone Caribbean 6. Troubling the white supremacy–black inferiority paradigm: Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown in Europe 7. ‘Blind Tom’ abroad: race, disability, and transatlantic representations of Thomas Wiggins 8. Discursive encounters: dance, inscription, and modern identities in interwar Paris 9. Black dagoes? Italian immigrants’ racial status in the United States: an ecological view 10. Reading ‘things’ in Italian-America