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Christopher Taylor
My current book project, Empire of Neglect: Imagining the Americas in a Liberal Age, explores how British West Indians responded to the discursive and institutional rise of liberal political economy within the British Empire. Arguing that economic liberalism brought creole notions of imperial citizenship to crisis—a crisis that they glossed as “neglect”—I show how West Indian authors drew on hemispheric resources to imagine anti-liberal modalities of political community. Focusing on the redeployment of texts (such as Uncle Tom’s Cabin), the investment in figures of sovereignty (such as Simón Bolívar), or the fanciful recollection of features of historical states (such as Spanish imperial jurisprudence), I argue that creoles sought cultural citizenship in the Americas as a compensation for the imperial citizenship they felt themselves to have lost.
I am beginning research for two subsequent projects. The first is tentatively titled I’m a Slave for You: Atlantic Modernity’s Impossible Subject. It explores Atlantic modernity’s emergence as
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Christopher Taylor (sprinter)
Jamaican sprinter (born 1999)
Christopher Taylor (born 1 October 1999) is a Jamaican 400 metre runner. He won the 400 metres event at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics in Cali, Colombia in 45.27 seconds, a Jamaica Youth Record.[1] Taylor also won the U-18 400 metres at the 2015 CARIFTA Games in a championship record time of 46.64.[2] On 19 March 2016, Christopher Taylor delivered an extraordinary performance at the ISSA High School Championships in Jamaica, breaking national records and making a massive contribution in bringing his school, Calabar High School, to their 7th consecutive victory. He also won the 2018 Jamaica Senior National Championships with a personal best and NJR of 44.88.[citation needed]
He won the 400 m hurdles silver medal[3] and the gold in 4x100 m and 4x400 m mixed relays in the 2021 NACAC U23 Championships.[4]