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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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Diasporic Africa: a view from history / Michael A. Gomez
- 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 / Frederick Knight
- Batuque: African drumming and dance between repression and concession: Bahia, 1808-1855 / Joao Jose Reis
- The evolution of ritual in the African diaspora: Central African Kilundu in Brazil, St. Domingue, and the United States, seventeenth-nineteenth centuries / James H. Sweet
- 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 / Jermaine O. Archer
- Embracing the religious profession: the antebellum mission of the Oblate Sisters of Providence / Diane Batts Morrow
- Finding the past, making the future: the African Hebrew Israelite community's alternative to the Black Diaspora / Fran Markowitz
- Spatial responses of the African diaspora in Jamaica: focus on Rastafarian architecture / Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis
- PART III. RECONFIGURING THE POLITICAL / CONTESTING THE CONCEPTUAL
- Blacks and slavery in Morocco: the question of the Haratin at the end of the seventeenth century / Chouki El Hamel
- Race and the making of the nation: blacks in modern France / Tyler Stovall
- "[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 / Erik S. McDuffie
- "Boundaries of law and disorder": the "grand design" of Eldridge Cleaver and the "overseas revolution" in Cuba / Rose C. Thevenin
- Writing the diaspora in black international literature "with wider hope in some more benign fluid...": diaspora consciousness and literary expression / Wendy W. Walters
- Displacing diaspora: trafficking, African women, and transnational practices / Asale Angel-Ajani.