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"Eugenia O'Neal, Obeah, Race and Racism: Caribbean Witchcraft in the English Imagination" is a study of how obeah, the religious and magical beliefs and practices brought to the Caribbean by enslaved Africans, was portrayed in British literature from the 1700s to the mid-1900s. The author, Eugenia O'Neal, argues that these portrayals shaped popular attitudes in Britain about people of African descent, particularly those from the Caribbean, in ways that still resonate today. The book examines key texts from the 1700s and explores the links between these descriptions of obeah and the development of anti-black racism in Britain in the nineteenth century. It also analyzes specific texts written between 1800 and 1900, showing how obeah was used to perpetuate stereotypes about black people. O'Neal concludes that these depictions of obeah in British writings over two hundred years contributed to racist perceptions of blacks and continue to impact race relations and racist ideas today. [Extracted from the article]