Reproducing Empire

Author : Laura Briggs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0520936310

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Reproducing Empire by Laura Briggs Pdf

Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation, feminism to Puerto Rican nationalism, this book uncovers the persistence of concerns about motherhood, prostitution, and family in shaping the beliefs and practices of virtually every player in the twentieth-century drama of Puerto Rican colonialism. In this way, it sheds light on the legacies haunting contemporary debates over globalization. Puerto Rico is a perfect lens through which to examine colonialism and globalization because for the past century it has been where the United States has expressed and fine-tuned its attitudes toward its own expansionism. Puerto Rico's history holds no simple lessons for present-day debate over globalization but does unearth some of its history. Reproducing Empire suggests that interventionist discourses of rescue, family, and sexuality fueled U.S. imperial projects and organized American colonialism. Through the politics, biology, and medicine of eugenics, prostitution, and birth control, the United States has justified its presence in the territory's politics and society. Briggs makes an innovative contribution to Puerto Rican and U.S. history, effectively arguing that gender has been crucial to the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico, and more broadly, to U.S. expansion elsewhere.

Author : Juanita De Barros
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469616056

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Reproducing the British Caribbean by Juanita De Barros Pdf

Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery

Author : Elisa Camiscioli
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822391197

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Reproducing the French Race by Elisa Camiscioli Pdf

In Reproducing the French Race, Elisa Camiscioli argues that immigration was a defining feature of early-twentieth-century France, and she examines the political, cultural, and social issues implicated in public debates about immigration and national identity at the time. Camiscioli demonstrates that mass immigration provided politicians, jurists, industrialists, racial theorists, feminists, and others with ample opportunity to explore questions of French racial belonging, France’s relationship to the colonial empire and the rest of Europe, and the connections between race and national anxieties regarding depopulation and degeneration. She also shows that discussions of the nation and its citizenry consistently returned to the body: its color and gender, its expenditure of labor power, its reproductive capacity, and its experience of desire. Of paramount importance was the question of which kinds of bodies could assimilate into the “French race.” By focusing on telling aspects of the immigration debate, Camiscioli reveals how racial hierarchies were constructed, how gender figured in their creation, and how only white Europeans were cast as assimilable. Delving into pronatalist politics, she describes how potential immigrants were ranked according to their imagined capacity to adapt to the workplace and family life in France. She traces the links between racialized categories and concerns about industrial skills and output, and she examines medico-hygienic texts on interracial sex, connecting those to the crusade against prostitution and the related campaign to abolish “white slavery,” the alleged entrapment of (white) women for sale into prostitution abroad. Camiscioli also explores the debate surrounding the 1927 law that first made it possible for French women who married foreigners to keep their French nationality. She concludes by linking the Third Republic’s impulse to create racial hierarchies to the emergence of the Vichy regime.

Author : Laura Briggs
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520299948

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How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics by Laura Briggs Pdf

Today all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current political crisis is above all about reproduction. Households are where we face our economic realities as social safety nets get cut and wages decline. Briggs brilliantly outlines how politicians’ racist accounts of reproduction—stories of Black “welfare queens” and Latina “breeding machines"—were the leading wedge in the government and business disinvestment in families. With decreasing wages, rising McJobs, and no resources for family care, our households have grown ever more precarious over the past forty years in sharply race-and class-stratified ways. This crisis, argues Briggs, fuels all others—from immigration to gay marriage, anti-feminism to the rise of the Tea Party.

Author : Juanita De Barros
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469616063

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Reproducing the British Caribbean by Juanita De Barros Pdf

This innovative book traces the history of ideas and policymaking concerning population growth and infant and maternal welfare in Caribbean colonies wrestling with the aftermath of slavery. Focusing on Jamaica, Guyana, and Barbados from the nineteenth century through the 1930s, when violent labor protests swept the region, Juanita De Barros takes a comparative approach in analyzing the struggles among former slaves and masters attempting to determine the course of their societies after emancipation. Invested in the success of the "great experiment" of slave emancipation, colonial officials developed new social welfare and health policies. Concerns about the health and size of ex-slave populations were expressed throughout the colonial world during this period. In the Caribbean, an emergent black middle class, rapidly increasing immigration, and new attitudes toward medicine and society were crucial factors. While hemispheric and diasporic trends influenced the new policies, De Barros shows that local physicians, philanthropists, midwives, and the impoverished mothers who were the targets of this official concern helped shape and implement efforts to ensure the health and reproduction of Caribbean populations in the decades before independence.

Author : Catherine Ceniza Choy
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 082233089X

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Empire of Care by Catherine Ceniza Choy Pdf

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Author : Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478009252

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Parenting Empires by Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas Pdf

In Parenting Empires, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites to analyze how everyday experiences of whiteness, privilege, and inequality reinforce national and hemispheric idioms of anti-corruption and austerity. Ramos-Zayas shows that for upper-class residents in the affluent neighborhoods of Ipanema (Rio de Janeiro) and El Condado (San Juan), parenting is particularly effective in providing moral grounding for neoliberal projects that disadvantage the overwhelmingly poor and racialized people who care for and teach their children. Wealthy parents in Ipanema and El Condado cultivate a liberal cosmopolitanism by living in multicultural city neighborhoods rather than gated suburban communities. Yet as Ramos-Zayas reveals, their parenting strategies, which stress spirituality, empathy, and equality, allow them to preserve and reproduce their white privilege. Defining this moral economy as “parenting empires,” she sheds light on how child-rearing practices permit urban elites in the Global South to sustain and profit from entrenched social and racial hierarchies.

Author : Rose Parfitt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 541 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316515198

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The Process of International Legal Reproduction by Rose Parfitt Pdf

Radical international legal history of the expansionary project of statehood and its role in generating profound distributional inequalities

Author : Karl Ittmann,Dennis D. Cordell,Gregory H. Maddox
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821419335

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The Demographics of Empire by Karl Ittmann,Dennis D. Cordell,Gregory H. Maddox Pdf

The Demographics of Empire is a collection of essays examining the multifaceted nature of the colonial science of demography in the last two centuries. The contributing scholars of Africa and the British and French empires focus on three questions: How have historians, demographers, and other social scientists understood colonial populations? What were the demographic realities of African societies and how did they affect colonial systems of power? Finally, how did demographic theories developed in Europe shape policies and administrative structures in the colonies? The essays approach the subject as either broad analyses of major demographic questions in Africa’s history or focused case studies that demonstrate how particular historical circumstances in individual African societies contributed to differing levels of fertility, mortality, and migration. Together, the contributors to The Demographics of Empire question demographic orthodoxy, and in particular the assumption that African societies in the past exhibited a single demographic regime characterized by high fertility and high mortality.

Author : I. Rodríguez-Silva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137263223

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Silencing Race by I. Rodríguez-Silva Pdf

Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racialization of Puerto Rican workers, it explores the 'class-making' of race.

Author : Laura Briggs
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780822351610

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Somebody's Children by Laura Briggs Pdf

A feminist historian and an adoptive parent, Laura Briggs gives an account of transracial and transnational adoption from the point of view of the mothers and communities that lose their children.

Author : Laura Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Birth control
ISBN : OCLC:43900944

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Reproducing Empire by Laura Briggs Pdf

Author : Laura Briggs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520385771

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Taking Children by Laura Briggs Pdf

"You have to take the children away."—Donald Trump Taking Children argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends. Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor have all been seized from their kin and caregivers. As Laura Briggs's sweeping narrative shows, the practice played out on the auction block, in the boarding schools designed to pacify the Native American population, in the foster care system used to put down the Black freedom movement, in the US's anti-Communist coups in Central America, and in the moral panic about "crack babies." In chilling detail we see how Central Americans were made into a population that could be stripped of their children and how every US administration beginning with Reagan has put children of immigrants and refugees in detention camps. Yet these tactics of terror have encountered opposition from every generation, and Briggs challenges us to stand and resist in this powerful corrective to American history.

Author : Alexandra Minna Stern
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780520938663

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Eugenic Nation by Alexandra Minna Stern Pdf

Many people assume that eugenics all but disappeared with the fall of Nazism, but as this sweeping history demonstrates, the idea of better breeding had a wide and surprising reach in the United States throughout the twentieth century. With an original emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation brings to light many little-known facts—for example, that one-third of the involuntary sterilizations in this country occurred in California between 1909 and 1979—as it explores the influence of eugenics on phenomena as varied as race-based intelligence tests, school segregation, tropical medicine, the Border Patrol, and the environmental movement. Eugenic Nation begins in the 1900s, when influential California eugenicists molded an extensive agenda of better breeding for the rest of the country. The book traces hereditarian theories of sex and gender to the culture of conformity of the 1950s and moves to the 1960s, arguing that the liberation movements of that decade emerged in part as a challenge to policies and practices informed by eugenics.

Author : Catalina M de Onís
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520380639

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Energy Islands by Catalina M de Onís Pdf

Energy Islands provides an urgent and nuanced portrait of collective action that resists racial capitalism, colonialism, and climate disruption. Weaving together historical and ethnographic research, this story challenges the master narratives of Puerto Rico as a tourist destination and site of "natural" disasters to demonstrate how fossil fuel economies are inextricably entwined with colonial practices and how local community groups in Puerto Rico have struggled against energy coloniality to mobilize and transform power from the ground up. Catalina M. de Onís documents how these groups work to decenter continental contexts and deconstruct damaging hierarchies that devalue and exploit rural coastal communities. She highlights and collaborates with individuals who refuse the cruel logics of empire by imagining and implementing energy justice and other interconnected radical power transformations. Diving deeply into energy, islands, and power, this book engages various metaphors for alternative world-making.