The Complexion of Race: Categories of Difference in Eighteenth-Century British Culture (New Cultural Studies) by Wheeler Roxann

Author:Wheeler, Roxann [Wheeler, Roxann]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9780812200140
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010-08-02T16:00:00+00:00

Figure 12. Chart of Racial Casts. Edward Long, The History of Jamaica (London, 1774). Long includes this chart of racial intermixture to distinguish between the Spanish and the British approaches to dealing with interracial sex in the colonies. Long claims that the Spaniards in the New World make the assignment of casts “a kind of science among them.” By comparison, the West Indian planters make fewer distinctions; for instance, Long himself tends to use the simpler division signified by the tripartite division white, mulatto, and black to indicate the three main kinds of Jamaican inhabitants in descending order of political and aesthetic currency. The white woman is notably absent as an agent in the chart of racial intermixture. Courtesy of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University.

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