Constructing and Challenging Creole Whiteness in Jamaica, 1865-1938

我的项目通过在两次重大公众骚乱期间对牙买加克里奥尔白人的质疑，增强了对种族化的殖民权力结构的理解。根据批判性白人研究，我将克里奥尔白人作为一种特权，但与解放后牙买加的政治、社会和经济不平等密不可分。克里奥尔白人指的是牙买加本地出生的白人人口，并明确参与了克里奥尔化，这是加勒比地区文化群体之间不对称互动的过程（Brathwaite, 1971; Bolland, 2002）。将克里奥尔人与出生在大都市服务、工作或访问牙买加的殖民地白人区分开来，本文将在地方和帝国尺度上剖析归属感和集体身份的概念。在莫兰特湾叛乱和1938年的劳工罢工之间，我用性别、阶级和空间作为分析单元，询问在这一时期的牙买加，既是克里奥尔人又是白人意味着什么。这个项目是从我关于废奴时代牙买加白人的本科论文演变而来的。利用类似的方法，我将结合档案研究和报纸分析来探索解放后种族和归属的表达。发展我早期对描绘奴隶制时期牙买加狂欢节的视觉来源的研究，我还将使用照片和明信片来剖析白人克里奥尔人的自我表现及其与地点的关系。

By interrogating creole whiteness in Jamaica between two moments of significant public unrest, myproject enhances understandings of racialised colonial power structures. Drawing upon Critical WhitenessStudies, I deploy creole whiteness as a privileged but porous racial category inextricable from thepolitical, social and economic inequalities of post-emancipation Jamaica. Creole whiteness denotesJamaica's locally-born white population and explicitly engages with creolisation, the process ofasymmetrical interaction between cultural groups in the Caribbean (Brathwaite, 1971; Bolland, 2002).Distinguishing creole from colonial whites born at the metropole who were serving, working or visitingJamaica, this thesis will dissect concepts of belonging and collective identity on local and imperial scales.Framed between the Morant Bay rebellion and the 1938 labour strikes, I use gender, class and space asunits of analysis to ask what it meant to be both creole and white in Jamaica during this period.This project has evolved from my undergraduate dissertation on whiteness in Jamaica during theabolition era. Drawing on similar methodologies, I will combine archival research and newspaper analysisto probe post-emancipation articulations of race and belonging. Developing my earlier study of visualsources depicting Jamaican carnival during slavery, I will also use photographs and postcards to dissectwhite creole self-representations and their relationships to place.