Citizenship from Below

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Citizenship from Below is written by Mimi Sheller and published by Duke University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0822349531 (ISBN 10) and 9780822349532 (ISBN 13).

This work starts with a substantial historical account of the different ways that freedom, race and gender were intertwined in Jamaica and Haiti after the end of slavery. Newly free men and women were rebound into a racialized class order with acceptable and unacceptable forms of masculinity and femininity. Sheller traces these histories of racialized and sexualized forms of freedom to the present.