In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka engages in a hemispheric examination of the intersection of Emancipation and Settler Colonialism in North America.
This logic conceived of freedom as a rac.
Asaka shows how from the late eighteenth century through Reconstruction, Emancipation efforts in the United States and present-day Canada were accompanied by attempts to relocate freed blacks to Tropical regions, as Black bodies were deemed to be more physiologically compatible with Tropical climates.
In Tropical Freedom Ikuko Asaka engages in a hemispheric examination of the intersection of Emancipation and Settler Colonialism in North America