“A mass ofmestiezen,castiezen, andmulatten”: Contending with color in the Netherlands Antilles, 1750–1850

Roitman, Jessica Vance

doi:10.1080/14788810.2017.1318022

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“…Interestingly, the anti-Curaçao sentiment was felt broadly across the population of the Leeward islands, including amongst the black and 'colored' populations, most of whom could not vote, as well as amongst local elites like the Van Romondts, who were virtual oligarchs (Roitman, 2017;Roitman & Veenendaal, 2016) Our island is owned by the Dutch and French, both parts being dependent on the United States for all commodities necessary for our existence. English is the language of all.…”

Section: Island Studies Journalmentioning

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“…While virtually annihilating the native Amerindian populations, European colonizers imported enslaved Africans to work on their Caribbean plantations. As a result of this forced migration, new societies were created by the colonial rulers, and the native or indigenous cultural traditions that survived the imperial era were hybridized (Baldacchino, 1993, p. 31;Lewis, 2004;Roitman, 2017). Indeed, according to Baldacchino (1993, p. 31), the contemporary 'local' culture of the Caribbean islands can be described as "a non-indigenous creole variety, itself a by-product of colonialism."…”

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Worlds apart: Island identities and colonial configurations in the Dutch Caribbean

Roitman¹,

Veenendaal²

2022

ISJ

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Analyses of the Caribbean continue to divide the region based on colonial heritage, which is largely a result of the fact that it primarily consists of small islands. In this article, we demonstrate the inaccuracy of such categorizations on the basis of two sets of arguments. Based on historical as well as contemporary evidence from the Dutch Caribbean, we show that different islands that were artificially united into a single jurisdiction by colonial powers commonly experience intense inter-island rivalries and separatist tendencies. In addition, however, we show evidence pointing to frequent contacts and shared regional identities between neighboring islands belonging to different (post)colonial spheres of influence, both in the past and in the present. In sum, therefore, our interdisciplinary analysis – combining insights from history and political science – shows that small islands experience seemingly contradictory tendencies towards both island nationalism and inter-island cooperation, but that cooperation can only work if it is initiated on the terms of islands themselves, and not determined by colonial rulers or metropolitan states.

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Section: Island Studies Journalmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Worlds apart: Island identities and colonial configurations in the Dutch Caribbean

Roitman¹,

Veenendaal²

2022

ISJ

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The Caribbean

Alonso

2018

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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‘If I Should Fall Behind’

Roitman

2020

Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550-1850

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What happens when a mother has to leave her young child and husband behind to go far away to work? Matilda Percival, a free woman of colour, lived separated from her family for at least two years, and maintained contact by writing home. This chapter uses Matilda’s letters as the basis for a discussion of not just Matilda and her family, but a larger exploration of how enslaved and free people of colour maintained family relationships in the mid-nineteenth century. Themes such as migration, information networks, and family structures will form the background to a story that revolves around the struggle of one small family to deal with distance, sickness, uncertainty, financial insecurity, and jealousy.

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“A mass ofmestiezen,castiezen, andmulatten”: Contending with color in the Netherlands Antilles, 1750–1850

Cited by 3 publications

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Worlds apart: Island identities and colonial configurations in the Dutch Caribbean

Worlds apart: Island identities and colonial configurations in the Dutch Caribbean

The Caribbean

‘If I Should Fall Behind’

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