Zacharias, Thomas and Mullings-Lawrence, Sireita. 2021. Legacies of indenture: identity and belonging in post-colonial Jamaica. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 44(1), pp. 97-114. ISSN 0141-9870 [Article]

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This article examines narratives of identity and belonging among descendants of white German indentured labourers in Jamaica and the local community in which they live. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and qualitative interviews the research shows the ways in which members of the community in the village of Seaford Town make sense of and articulate elements of their German cultural heritage. This paper argues that while ideas about whiteness suffuse many of the identity-narratives, whiteness can variously be muted or amplified as a marker of identity. Similarly, notions of German-ness are not consistently articulated as embodied cultural forms. Here, culture is not conceptualized as static or embodied, but can be claimed and shared. In sum, the paper speaks to the ways in which whiteness read through a historical lens becomes remade in a contemporary context.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2020.1715452
Additional Information:	This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Ethnic and Racial Studies on 27 January 2020, available online: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2020.1715452
Keywords:	Whiteness, diaspora, identity, Caribbean, Germany, race
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Educational Studies > Centre for Identities and Social Justice
Dates:	Date Event 13 June 2019 Submitted 7 January 2020 Accepted 27 January 2020 Published Online 2021 Published
Item ID:	28137
Date Deposited:	28 Jan 2020 14:36
Last Modified:	28 Apr 2022 17:11
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/28137

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