Race

Intersections of race and gender have…

transformed the way sources can be read

Give 2 aims Fuentes sets out in her introduction

Construct a historically side narrative from archival documents

Identify personhood in Bridgetown

Fuentes Intro

the very call to “find more sources” about people who left few if any of their own reproduces the same erasures and silences

What type of detail do runaway slave adverts include?

Descriptions of personal brandings and scars on the womens bodies

Give 2 figures related the Manchurian intermarriages

grants in 1937

1200 new marriages

Boydston

 it is vital for historians to challenge any pre-existing assumptions they have about sources if they want to truly transform their understanding

Why did children taken the Japanese surname, even it was the surname of their mother?

Maintain metropolitan citizenship

Why were the Japanese happy for Koreans to come to Japan?

saw themselves as having the same racial background which needed to be unified

What was any relationship between a british officer and Indian woman seen to be doing?

closing the gap

What does Allman highlight the importance of?

Area studies

Give 2 reasons the slave population of Bridgetown was dominated by women

Generally had a higher rate of reproduction

Urban slaves so most work was domestic

Why were there still a high number of enslaved women in Virginia from Chesapeake?

Igbo tradition saw them making their living from agricultural activity

How has Fannie Berry’s oral history been distorted?

from a primarily female background

Paseta

Notions of Indian backwardness were irrevocably tied to the treatment of women

What does Paseta saw about the martial races

Embodied masculinity more eg sikhs fought in WW1

From what type of background did the martial races tend to come from?

Areas which remained loyal to the British after the 1857 Indian Mutiny

Define mutilated historicity

 violent state which enslaved women are in in the archive

Bryder and Brooks

sentimentality toward these marginalized but sensitive women contrast with stereotypical European moral condemnations

What did the White Womans Protection Ordinance do?

any indigenous male convicted of rape would automatically receive the death penalty

Name 3 key theorists

Crenshaw

Allman and Burton

Bryder

Summarise Crenshaw

Oppression isn’t sum of distinct biases but come from the interplay of identities in hierarchical systems

Summarise Allman and Burton

Privileging the global may reproduce certain power dynamics and marginalize local histories and voices

Summarise Bryder

Sexuality became a focal point for colonial anxieties about racial purity and imperial authority

What reformist Islamic theory did Sah Jahan Begim adopt?

purdah (female seclusion)

Who and how was the overthrowing of Begum’s authority justified?

Sir Griffin

Muslims blamed for 1857 uprising

Why were British opinions of the Muslim elites constantly changing?

Used them as symbol of loyalty against Hindu nationalists

Feared transnational Islamic solidarity