Surviving the Americas : Garifuna Persistence from Nicaragua to New York City /

"Surviving the Americas directly engages the vital social justice issues of diaspora, exclusion, and resilience through an ethnographic study with the Garifuna, a Central American afro-indigenous group with roots in western Africa and the Caribbean. Today, the Garifuna are concentrated on the C...

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Main Author: Cosgrove, Serena 1963- (Author, VerfasserIn.)
Other Authors: Bent, Leonard Joseph (Contributor, MitwirkendeR.), Gorvetzian, Andrew James (Contributor, MitwirkendeR.), Idiáquez, Jose (Editor, HerausgeberIn.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cincinnati, Ohio The University of Cincinnati Press 2020
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Garifuna (Caribbean people) > New York (State) > New York > Social conditions.
Garifuna (Caribbean people) > Nicaragua > Social conditions.
Nicaragua.
New York (State) > New York.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Surviving the Americas directly engages the vital social justice issues of diaspora, exclusion, and resilience through an ethnographic study with the Garifuna, a Central American afro-indigenous group with roots in western Africa and the Caribbean. Today, the Garifuna are concentrated on the Caribbean coast of Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, and Belize, and about 50,000 Garifuna live in the United States. The editors focus on the resilience and survival of the Garifuna communities of Pearl Lagoon on the southeastern Caribbean coast of Nicaragua and trace the recent movement of the Central American Garifuna to the United States through interviews with Garifuna families living in the Bronx. A people born of the rupturing processes of the slave trade and colonization in the 1600s and 1700s, the Garifuna today challenge our very notions of culture, indigeneity, and resistance and provide a rich opportunity to critique how the Western gaze"
Preface: Welcoming : Garifuna hospitality / Serena Cosgrove and Jose (Chepe) Idiáquez -- Introduction: Being Garifuna / Leonard Joseph Bent -- Persisting : Garifuna histories / Serena Cosgrove and Jose (Chepe) Idiáquez -- Framing : decolonial intersectionality / Serena Cosgrove -- Rooting : Garifuna connection to nature / Serena Cosgrove, Andrew Gorvetzian, Jose (Chepe) Idiáquez, and Leonard Joseph -- Believing : Garifuna spirituality / Jose (Chepe) Idiáquez -- Routing : youth persistence / Andrew Gorvetzian -- Rooting, routing, and believing : Garifuna persistence in Nicaragua, Honduras, and New York City / Serena Cosgrove, Andrew Gorvetzian, Jose (Chepe) Idiáquez, and Leonard Joseph -- Unlearning/relearning : decolonial methodologies / Serena Cosgrove.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Physical Description:1 online resource (205 pages).
ISBN:9781947602120

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