Transatlantic Crossroads Lab
Transatlantic Crossroads Lab
A prevailing hypothesis suggests that racism and racialism emerged from the plantation economy in the Americas, and later shaped European colonialism in Africa. In this context, the Atlantic offers a historical lens through which to examine colonial domination and racial ideologies. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the TransatlanticLab project will investigate colonial and post-colonial interactions across the transatlantic world, with a focus on the Caribbean plantation economy and its influence on race and racism. The project will analyse how economic practices created racial hierarchies and reinforced social oppression on both sides of the ocean. Its findings aim to provide fresh insights into the links between African colonialism and the American plantation system.
Transatlantic world; colonialism; slavery; race; history of science; eugenesic; environment; heritage; literature; arts; representations of otherness; auto-representations
A prevailing hypothesis suggests that racism and racialism emerged from the plantation economy in the Americas, and later shaped European colonialism in Africa. In this context, the Atlantic offers a historical lens through which to examine colonial domination and racial ideologies. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the TransatlanticLab project will investigate colonial and post-colonial interactions across the transatlantic world, with a focus on the Caribbean plantation economy and its influence on race and racism. The project will analyse how economic practices created racial hierarchies and reinforced social oppression on both sides of the ocean. Its findings aim to provide fresh insights into the links between African colonialism and the American plantation system.
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