Seminar: *'Making 'Race': the work of the slave-owners*
Feb 17, 2016 05:30 PM
UCL Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PN
*Professor Catherine Hall* (UCL) - Building on the work of the Legacies
of British Slave-ownership project this paper will explore the role of
the slave-owners in making 'race'. The idea of 'the negro', of 'the
slave' and of 'the white man' had to be constructed in the new world of
the Atlantic. It was effected through a wide variety of practices - from
the selling of African men and women to the making of laws, the
discursive construction of racial types and the quotidian doings of the
plantation. Drawing on a range of individual and familial stories this
paper will argue that making 'race' was understood as vital work by the
slave-owners of the British Caribbean.
More details from: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/ia-events/making_race
Attendance is free of charge but registration is required
(http://making-race.eventbrite.co.uk/). IMPORTANT NOTE ON ACCESS TO 51
GORDON SQUARE: in order to ensure a smooth delivery of the lecture and
for ease of logistics, access to the building may be restricted after
the start of the event. We will endeavour to accommodate late arrivals
within our possibilities, but an early arrival is recommended to avoid
disappointment.
Catherine Hall is Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural
History at University College London. Family Fortunes. Men and Women of
the English middle class, 1780-1850, co-authored with Leonore Davidoff
was published in 1978/2002. Since the late 1980s her work has focused on
the relation between Britain and its empire. Civilising Subjects:
metropole and colony in the English imagination was published in 2002
and Macaulay and Son: Architects of Imperial Britain in 2012. At Home
with the Empire. Metropolitan culture and the imperial world, co-edited
with Sonya O Rose, was published in 2006. She is the Principal
Investigator on the ESRC/AHRC project ‘Legacies of British
Slave-ownership’ (www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs) which focuses on British
slave-owners in the Caribbean between 1763-1833, exploring their
property in people and land, their power and their legacies. Her most
recent work is the collectively authored Legacies of British
Slave-ownership: Colonial slavery and the formation of Victorian Britain
(2014).
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