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From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global BlacknessWith Jamella N. Gow, Bowdoin College
Chair: Aaron Winter, Lancaster University
In collaboration with Sociology at Lancaster University
In this talk, Dr Jamella N. Gow examined how global racial hierarchies rooted in histories of racialized Black labour under capitalism define Caribbean nations as Black. Tracing the global historical processes of colonialism, imperialist underdevelopment, and neoliberalism in the Caribbean, she showed how these processes then inform racist policies that target nations and their migrants by relying on tropes of both Black criminality and exploitability now reproduced on a global scale. Through a comparative case study of both Haiti and Jamaica, Dr Gow argued for how both nations become positioned within local and global racial hierarchies reliant on global Blackness, and how they and their diaspora redefine themselves through their own iterations of Black nationalist identity.
| Period | 21/10/2025 |
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| Event title | 'From Colonial Subjects to Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global Blackness' with Dr Jamella N. Gow: Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Event |
| Event type | Seminar |
| Location | United KingdomShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |