{"product_id":"tropical-freedom-9780822368816","title":"Tropical Freedom","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIkuko 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTropical Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is an ambitious and satisfying book. Ikuko Asaka balances the two focuses of her work—free black people’s understandings of their freedom and belonging, and white imperial understandings of tropicality, labor, and the spaces of black freedom—with deft organization and clarity.”\u003c\/p\u003e -- Elaine LaFay * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTropical Freedom \u003c\/i\u003eis a bold book that takes a variety of historical frameworks—among them settler colonialism, environmental determinism, and the geography of freedom—to tell the complicated story of African North Americans in the age of emancipation. This is a fascinating narrative and a welcome addition to the field.\" -- Kevin Hooper * Western Historical Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\"Wonderful. . . . \u003ci\u003eTropical Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is undoubtedly a contribution to historiographies of Black colonization, it is also represents a significant contribution to the fields of settler colonial studies, Black Studies, gender and sexuality studies, critical geographies and race and space scholarship. \u003ci\u003eTropical Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book to read and teach.\" -- Tiffany King * Reviews in History *\u003cbr\u003e\"In its breadth of analysis and focussed case studies from Ottawa to Haiti; its transnational scope and archival research (the national archives of Canada and the United Kingdom are impressively mined); and its provoking, persuasive arguments, \u003ci\u003eTropical Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the finest monographs I have read in a long while. It forges new links in transatlantic historiographies of labor, migration, and racial formation, and is essential reading for scholars interested in discourses of race, gender, climate, and settler colonial identity in North America in the era of emancipation.\" -- Henry Knight Lozano * Journal of American Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Note on Terms  xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Black Freedom and Settler Colonial Order  21\u003cbr\u003e 2. Black Geographies and the Politics of Diaspora  53\u003cbr\u003e 3. Intimacy and Belonging  81\u003cbr\u003e 4. Gendered Mobilities and White Settler Boundaries  111\u003cbr\u003e 5. Race, Climate, and Labor  139\u003cbr\u003e 6. U.S. Emancipation and Tropical Black Freedom  167\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion  193\u003cbr\u003e Notes  205\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  253\u003cbr\u003e Index  281","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406104240471,"sku":"9780822368816","price":98.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822368816.jpg?v=1730494541","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tropical-freedom-9780822368816","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}