Good Enough for Booker T to Kiss: Hampton, Tuskegee, and Caribbean Self-Fashioning

Abstract

This article examines the raced and gendered investments of early twentieth-century Caribbean subjects in Booker T. Washington, who was perhaps the most powerful African American in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the two educational institutions with which he was associated, the Tuskegee and Hampton Institutes.

Keywords

• american studies
• caribbean
• transnational
• booker t. washington