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Dr. Juanita De Barros

Selected Publications

“The Death of Molly Schulz: Race, Magic, and the Law in the Post-Slavery Caribbean,” The Journal of Social History 55, no. 2 (2021): 345-373. Winner of the 2022 Andrés Ramos Mattei-Neville Hall Article Prize by the Association of Caribbean Historians.

“Reproducing the British Caribbean: Sex, Gender, and Population Politics after Slavery” Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014.

Co-editor (with Sean Stillwell). Public Health and the Imperial Project. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2016.

“Crossing Colonial Boundaries: Health and the Responses of ‘Colonial Mediators’ to the Crisis of the 1930s in the French and British Caribbean.” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 38, no. 2 (2014): 220-237. (with Jacques Dumont)

“‘A Laudable Experiment’: Infant Welfare Work and Medical Intermediaries in Early Twentieth-century Barbados.” Public Health in the British empire: Intermediaries, Subordinates, and Public Health Practice, 1850-1960, edited by Amna Khalid and Ryan Johnson. New York: Routledge, 2011. 27 ms pp

(with Nigel Westmaas). “Historical Commentaries. British Guiana (Guyana). The Marcus Garvey University Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XI: The Caribbean Diaspora, 1910-1920, edited by Robert Hill. Clxvii-clxxvi.

“Improving the Standard of Motherhood: Infant Welfare in Post-Slavery British Guiana,” in eds De Barros, Palmer, and Wright, Health and Medicine in the circum-Caribbean, 1800-1968. New York: Routlege, 2009. 165-194 pp.

Co-Editor (with Steve Palmer and David Wright). Health and Medicine in the Caribbean: Historical Perspectives. New York: Routledge, 2009

“Dispensers, Obeah, and Quackery: Medical Rivalries in Post-Slavery British Guiana.” Social History of Medicine 20 (2007): 243-261.

Co-editor (with Audra Diptee and David Trotman). Beyond Fragmentation: Perspectives on Caribbean History. Princeton: Marcus Weiner Publishers, 2006.

“‘Working Cutlass and Shovel’: Labour and Redemption at the Onderneeming School in British Guiana,” in eds. Gad Heuman and David Trotman, Contesting Freedom: Control and Resistance in the Post-emancipation Caribbean. London: Macmillan, 2005. 39-64.

“Setting Things Right?: Medicine and Magic in British Guiana, 1803-1834,” Slavery and Abolition 25.1 (April, 2004): 28-50.

“Urban British Guiana, 1838-1924: Wharf Rats, Centipedes, and Pork Knockers,” in eds. Paul Craven and Doug Hay,Douglas Hay and Paul Craven (eds), Masters, Servants, and Magistrates in Britain and the Empire, 1562–1955. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 323-337.

Co-editor (with Sean Stilwell). Colonialism and Health in the Tropics. Special Issue of Caribbean Quarterly 49.4 (December 2003).

“Sanitation and Civilization in Georgetown, British Guiana,” in Colonialism and Health in the Tropics, Special Issue of Caribbean Quarterly 49.4 (December 2003): 65-86.

“Spreading Sanitary Enlightenment?: Race, Identity, and the Emergence of a Creole Medical Profession in British Guiana,” Journal of British Studies 42 (October 2003): 483-504.

Order and Place in a Colonial City: Patterns of Struggle and Resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana, 1889-1924. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2002.

“Metropolitan Policies and Colonial Practices at the Boys? Reformatory in British Guiana,” Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 30.2 (May 2002): 1-24.

“Congregationalism and Afro-Guianese Autonomy,” in ed. Patrick Taylor, Nation Dance: Religion, Identity, and Cultural Difference in the Caribbean. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001. 89-103.

“‘To Milk or Not to Milk?’ Regulation of the Milk Industry in Colonial Georgetown,” in The Journal of Caribbean History 31: 1 & 2 (1997): 36-53.

“Race and Culture in the Writings of J. J. Thomas,” in The Journal of Caribbean History 27.1 (1993): 36-53.