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Landscapes of Freedom : Building a Postemancipation Society in the Rainforests of Western Colombia /

After emancipation in 1851, the African descendants living in the extra-humid rainforests of the Pacific coast of Colombia attained levels of autonomy hardly equaled anywhere else in the Americas. This autonomy rested on their access to a diverse environment--including small strips of fertile soils,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Leal, Claudia, 1970- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Colección:Latin American landscapes.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Voyages into the rainforest : an introduction in three acts
  • part I. An extractive economy
  • 1. Slave mining and emancipation
  • 2. Freedom and the persistence of extraction
  • 3. Traders in natural commodities
  • 4. The politics of natural resource access
  • part II. Racialized landscapes
  • 5. Blackness, forests, and nation
  • 6. Urban dreams and nightmares
  • Conclusion : a people and an environment with history.