Diasporic Africa : a reader / / edited by Michael A. Gomez.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Gomez, Michael Angelo, 1955-; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Physical Description: viii, 317 p. :; ill.
• Other title: Diasporic Africa: a view from history /; PART I. TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE CULTURAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DURING SLAVERY --; In an ocean of blue: West African Indigo workers in the Atlantic world to 1800 /; Batuque: African drumming and dance between repression and concession: Bahia, 1808-1855 /; 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 --; Bitter herbs and a lock of hair: recollections of African in slave narratives of the Garrisonian Era /; Embracing the religious profession: the antebellum mission of the Oblate Sisters of Providence /; Finding the past, making the future: the African Hebrew Israelite community's alternative to the Black Diaspora /; Spatial responses of the African diaspora in Jamaica: focus on Rastafarian architecture /; PART III. RECONFIGURING THE POLITICAL /; Blacks and slavery in Morocco: the question of the Haratin at the end of the seventeenth century /; Race and the making of the nation: blacks in modern France /; "[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 /; "Boundaries of law and disorder": the "grand design" of Eldridge Cleaver and the "overseas revolution" in Cuba /; Writing the diaspora in black international literature "with wider hope in some more benign fluid...": diaspora consciousness and literary expression /; Displacing diaspora: trafficking, African women, and transnational practices /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 0814731651 (cloth : alk. paper); 081473166X (pbk. : alk. paper)
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Michael A. Gomez.