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Slavery, Colonialism, Miscegenation. Ramon Saldivar Stanford University. The Colonial Subject. The American Caribbean The Colonizer and the Colonized, Albert Memmi Haiti and Caribbean colonial Society Mulattos and Mestizos. Sutpen and American Racism.
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Slavery, Colonialism, Miscegenation Ramon Saldivar Stanford University
The Colonial Subject • The American Caribbean • The Colonizer and the Colonized, Albert Memmi • Haiti and Caribbean colonial Society • Mulattos and Mestizos Slavery, Colonialism, Miscegenation
Sutpen and American Racism • Race as “A kind of speculative antagonism” Absalom, p. 186 • Race and the Enactment of Identity • Race not an essential category • Identity as ethical commitment and subjective assignment • Race, Class, and Misogyny Slavery, Colonialism, Miscegenation
The Rule of the White Father • The contradictions of exclusion • The seduction of power and dominance • The boy-symbol at the door Slavery, Colonialism, Miscegenation