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'colouring The Caribbean' Offers The First Comprehensive Study Of Agostino Brunias's Intriguing Pictures Of Colonial West Indians Of Colour - So Called 'red' And 'black' Caribs, Dark-skinned Africans And Afro-creoles, And People Of Mixed Race - Made For Colonial Officials And Plantocratic Elites During The Late-eighteenth Century. Although Brunias's Paintings Have Often Been Understood As Straightforward Documents Of Visual Ethnography That Functioned As Field Guides For Reading Race, This Book Investigates How The Images Both Reflected And Refracted Ideas About Race Commonly Held By Eighteenth-century Britons, Helping To Construct Racial Categories While Simultaneously Exposing Their Constructedness And Underscoring Their Contradictions. The Book Offers Provocative New Insights About Brunias's Work Gleaned From A Broad Survey Of His Paintings, Many Of Which Are Reproduced Here For The First Time.--cover Page 4. Brunias's Tarred Brush, Or Painting Indians Black : Race-ing The Carib Divide -- Merry And Contented Slaves And Other Island Myths : Representing Africans And Afro-creoles In The Anglo-american World -- Brown-skinned Booty, Or Colonising Diana : Mixed-race Venuses And Vixen

Author

Mia L. Bagneris

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781526120472

Subjects

History, Art, Arts