The making of race and place in nineteenth-century British Honduras

From: Environmental History | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

IN BELIZE, a small Central American nation on the Caribbean coast, different "racial" groups historically have been, and sometimes still are, constructed as better suited to some forms of labor-in-nature than others. The process of racial construction intensified in the nineteenth century, when Belize was a British colony and when slavery and an increasingly unequal distribution of land became the chief characteristics of this swampy colonial backwater. The racial discourse of colonial officers and apologists presumed particular relationships to the natural environment for each racial group. ...

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