Diasporic Africa : a reader / / edited by Michael A. Gomez.
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Year of Publication: | 2006 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | viii, 317 p. :; ill. |
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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 / |
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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. |