Supported by a British Academy grant, her most recent book Public Secrets: Race and Colour in colonial and independent Jamaica (2019) looks at racial discrimination in Jamaica in the era of decolonisation (1918-1980). Drawing upon a wide range of primary materials, including court testimonies, folk tales, and oral history, it looks at the lives of the second-generation of African-Jamaican women born in freedom, in particular their engagement with messages about marriage, motherhood, sexuality, work and citizenship. Her second book Destined for a Life of Service: Defining African Jamaican Womanhood, 1865-1938 also explores race's intersection with gender. Her first book Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780-1838 came out of her PhD and examined representations of Jamaican slave women in pro- and antislavery writings. Henrice's research focuses on social inequalities in the Caribbean. Her most recent work examines the intersection between social inequality and environmental vulnerability in the Caribbean. It not only maps the multiple and often covert forms of discrimination in a variety of settings – for example, work, education, and law - but also explores how they were discussed and the extent to which they were contested. Henrice has also worked on the history of medicine and health in the 20 th-century Caribbean, in particular mental health, nutrition and TB. Her latest book looks at race and colour discrimination in Jamaica from 1918 till 1980. She has worked extensively on gender during slavery and in the post-emancipation period. Henrice’s main research focuses on social inequalities in the Caribbean. Henrice has been actively involved with the Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS) and the Social History Society for many years and served as deputy editor of Women’s History Review. Henrice Altink is Professor in Modern History and Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre (IGDC). BA (Zwolle), MA (Nijmegen / Lancaster), PhD (Hull)
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