Fashioning the Imperial Atlantic: Race, Gender, and Material Culture, c. 1660-1820

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Lemire. Beverly

• SSRHC IG awarded 2022: The PI will test the well-worn trope, "you are what you where," by examining how racial hierarchies in the imperial Atlantic used dress and material systems to enact race. Whiteness shaped aesthetic priorities in empires and colonies, including the raced and gendered systems of dress and laundry. The latter was essential to constantly renew imperial whiteness. Black resistance took various forms, from the disruptive display of uniform jackets on rebel bodies to the initiatives of recalcitrant Black laundresses. This project will illuminate new histories, expanding the historiography of whiteness with material evidence as bedrock. For material fashions and practice made racism ever-present and everyday. The researcher combines quantitative and qualitative methods including archival research, visual and material analysis to undertake this project.

• Date created

  09/27/2021

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Insight Grant
  • IG
  • SSHRC
  • Atlantic
  • History
  • Fashion
  • Dress
  • Neoclassical Dress
  • Maroon
  • Material Culture
  • Laundry
  • Imperial
  • Race
  • Colonial
  • Gender
  • Women
  • Whitewashing
  • Resistance
  • Entanglement
  • Violence
  • History
  • Economics
  • Arts and Culture
  • 1660AD-1820AD
  • International
  • Europe
  • Caribbean
  • United Kingdom
  • Jamaica
  • The Netherlands
  • Guyana (Former British Guiana)

• Type of Item

  Research Material

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-jhfy-g231

• License

  ©️Lemire, Beverly. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2028.