Colouring the Caribbean
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Afro-Creoles
Agostino Brunias
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Black Caribs
British colonial art
British colonial Caribbean
Carib Wars
Caribbean life
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colonial West Indians
dark-skinned Africans
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late-eighteenth century Britain
mixed-race people
paintings
plantocratic elites
quotidian trade scenes
visual ethnography
Product details
- ISBN 9781526174581
- Weight: 522g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2023
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Mia L. Bagneris is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Art History and Director of the Africana Studies Program at Tulane University.
