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Can I read Tropical Freedom : Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation on EtoBox?

Tropical Freedom : Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation by Ikuko Asaka is a social science available to read on EtoBox.

What is Tropical Freedom : Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation about?

In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka engages in a hemispheric examination of the intersection of emancipation and settler colonialism in North America. Asaka shows how from the late eighteenth century through Reconstruction, emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied by attempts to relocate freed blacks to tropical regions, as black bodies were deemed to be more physiologically compatible with tropical climates. This logic conceived of freedom as a racially segr

Who reads Tropical Freedom : Climate, Settler Colonialism, and Black Exclusion in the Age of Emancipation?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Ikuko Asaka
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Published
2017
Language
EN
ISBN
9780822372752
Category
social science
Subjects
Science, History, Social Science
Updated
2026-03-25

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