Christina Cecelia Davidson Dominican intersection: The moral politics of racialization in the era of HCC Astwood and the Emancipation It was published by Duke University Press October 2024. [Many thanks to the Caribbean Philosophical Association for bringing this item to our attention.]
explanation: HCC Astwood: Ministers and missionaries, diplomats and politicians, the mysteries of history in the history of the United States. in Dominican intersectionChristina Cecelia Davidson explores Astwood’s extraordinary and complicated life and career. Born in the Caribbean in England in 1844, Astwood later moved to the reconstruction era of New Orleans, becoming a Republican activist and preacher of the Methodist Anglican Church (AME) church in Africa. In 1882 he became the first black man to be named the Consul of the Dominican Republic.
Davidson follows Astwood’s challenges faced as a black politician during the rampaging era of racism and an era of ongoing transnational debate over the capacity of black men to citizenship. As a US representative and an AME missionary, Astwood represented the respect of black men. But, as Davidson shows, Astwood has used deception and became a strict and conspiratorial figure who engaged in racist moral politics and used fraud to order authority. His methods show the Bleeker side of black international politics, and provide a diverse outline of cross-border moral discourse as all people of color fought for power amid the ongoing debate over Black rights since Santo Domingo and subsequently black people.
Christina Cecelia Davidson He is an assistant professor of history at the University of Southern California.
