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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
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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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