Constructing and Challenging Creole Whiteness in Jamaica, 1865-1938

通过询问牙买加两次重大公众骚乱之间的克里奥尔白人，我的项目增强了对种族化殖民权力结构的理解。借鉴关键的白度研究，我部署克里奥尔白度作为一个特权，但多孔的种族类别，从解放后的牙买加的政治，社会和经济不平等密不可分。克里奥尔白表示牙买加本地出生的白色人口，并明确参与克里奥尔化，加勒比地区文化群体之间的不对称互动过程（Brathwaite，1971年;将克里奥尔语与在牙买加服役、工作或访问的在大都市出生的殖民地白人区分开来，本文将从地方和帝国两个层面剖析归属感和集体认同的概念。2在莫兰特湾起义和1938年工人罢工之间，我使用性别，类和空间作为分析的单位，问它意味着什么是克里奥尔语和白色在牙买加在这一时期。这个项目已经从我的本科论文在牙买加的白人在废除死刑的时代演变。借鉴类似的方法，我将结合联合收割机档案研究和报纸分析，探讨后解放的种族和归属的表达。发展我早期研究的visualsources描绘牙买加狂欢节在奴隶制期间，我也将使用照片和明信片来解剖白人克里奥尔自我表述和他们的关系的地方。

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.