天美影院

Colonial-era systems of forced labor, ranging from indenture to outright slavery, were central to the development of contemporary understandings of human thermal physiology. The聽subaltern聽laborer鈥檚 body became a crucial site for understanding the effects of heat on different kinds of racialized bodies, as a means of both maximizing labor extraction and consolidating social and political regimes organized around the perceived vulnerability and susceptibility of different kinds of bodies to heat.