“Balls at Kingston to the ‘Brown Girls’,”1: A Palimpsest for Bleached-Brown Skins in Jamaican Dancehall
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The spectacle of brown skin in Jamaica emerged the late eighteenth century to early nineteenth with “balls at Kingston ‘Brown Girls’” (Lewis 382), referred as “Brown Girls Balls.” Girls” mulatto women or mulatress, infantilized “girls,” who were off-springs Europeans and enslaved Africans. Brown considered “fair sex” by Eurocentric standards, known for their beauty elegance, sponsored British Royal Navy ranks Admiral Red Blue. By century, Balls started going out into streets processions “sets” color gradation shade skin, costumed matching dresses parasols they danced sang through streets. Later, Set parades joined annual John Canoe masquerades, celebrated from Christmas New Year. A contemporary reemerged dancehall 1990s a bleached-brown appearance bleaching creams, critiquing colorism. I see masquerades like derivative palimpsests play “brown” today. argue that references spectacles are skins still haunts society’s consciousness about its past, recontextualizes seeming paradox masquerade denounce racism
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عنوان ژورنال: Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1547-7150']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33596/anth.368