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Diasporic Africa : a Reader.
Diasporic Africa presents the most recent research on the history and experiences of people of African descent outside of the African continent. By incorporating Europe and North Africa as well as North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this reader shifts the discourse on the African diaspo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction Diasporic Africa: A View from History; Part I Transformations of the Cultural and Technological during Slavery; 1 In an Ocean of Blue: West African Indigo Workers in the Atlantic World to 1800; 2 Batuque: African Drumming and Dance between Repression and Concession: Bahia, 1808-1855; 3 The Evolution of Ritual in the African Diaspora: Central African Kilundu in Brazil, St. Domingue, and the United States, Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries; Part II Memory and Instantiations of the Divine.
- 4 Bitter Herbs and a Lock of Hair: Recollections of Africa in Slave Narratives of the Garrisonian Era5 Embracing the Religious Profession: The Antebellum Mission of the Oblate Sisters of Providence; 6 Finding the Past, Making the Future: The African Hebrew Israelite Community's Alternative to the Black Diaspora; 7 Spatial Responses of the African Diaspora in Jamaica: Focus on Rastafarian Architecture; Part III Reconfiguring the Political/Contesting the Conceptual; 8 Blacks and Slavery in Morocco: The Question of the Haratin at the End of the Seventeenth Century.
- 9 Race and the Making of the Nation: Blacks in Modern France10 "[She] devoted twenty minutes condemning all other forms of government but the Soviet": Black Women Radicals in the Garvey Movement and in the Left during the 1920s; 11 "Boundaries of Law and Disorder": The "Grand Design" of Eldridge Cleaver and the "Overseas Revolution" in Cuba; 12 Writing the Diaspora in Black International Literature "With Wider Hope in Some More Benign Fluid . . .": Diaspora Consciousness and Literary Expression; 13 Displacing Diaspora: Trafficking, African Women, and Transnational Practices.