The Deepest Dye : : Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World / / Aisha Khan.
How colonial categories of race and religion together created identities and hierarchies that today are vehicles for multicultural nationalism and social critique in the Caribbean and its diasporas. When the British Empire abolished slavery, Caribbean sugar plantation owners faced a labor shortage....
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Khan, Aisha, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Deepest Dye : Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World / Aisha Khan. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (224 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- NOTES ON TERMINOLOGY AND ORTHOGRAPHY -- 1 A PARALLAX VIEW -- 2 PLANTATIONS AND CLIMATES OF CRISIS -- 3 THE PERFORMANCE OF SHADOWS -- 4 THE TRIALS OF OBEAH TODAY -- 5 THE SPIRIT OF HOSAY TODAY -- 6 IDENTIFICATIONS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star How colonial categories of race and religion together created identities and hierarchies that today are vehicles for multicultural nationalism and social critique in the Caribbean and its diasporas. When the British Empire abolished slavery, Caribbean sugar plantation owners faced a labor shortage. To solve the problem, they imported indentured “coolie” laborers, Hindus and a minority Muslim population from the Indian subcontinent. Indentureship continued from 1838 until its official end in 1917. The Deepest Dye begins on post-emancipation plantations in the West Indies—where Europeans, Indians, and Africans intermingled for work and worship—and ranges to present-day England, North America, and Trinidad, where colonial-era legacies endure in identities and hierarchies that still shape the post-independence Caribbean and its contemporary diasporas. Aisha Khan focuses on the contested religious practices of obeah and Hosay, which are racialized as “African” and “Indian” despite the diversity of their participants. Obeah, a catch-all Caribbean term for sub-Saharan healing and divination traditions, was associated in colonial society with magic, slave insurrection, and fraud. This led to anti-obeah laws, some of which still remain in place. Hosay developed in the West Indies from Indian commemorations of the Islamic mourning ritual of Muharram. Although it received certain legal protections, Hosay’s mass gatherings, processions, and mock battles provoked fears of economic disruption and labor unrest that lead to criminalization by colonial powers. The proper observance of Hosay was debated among some historical Muslim communities and continues to be debated now. In a nuanced study of these two practices, Aisha Khan sheds light on power dynamics through religious and racial identities formed in the context of colonialism in the Atlantic world, and shows how today these identities reiterate inequalities as well as reinforce demands for justice and recognition. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Identification (Religion). Obeah (Cult). Postcolonialism West Indies. Tenth of Muḥarram. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Afro-Atlantic religions. British empire. Enlightenment thought in the Americas. Hosay. Muharram. colonial archive. coolie. diasporic Islam. indenture. intersectionality. magic. obeah. plantation society. resistance. sugar economy. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology 2021 English 9783110754186 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Sociology 2021 9783110753967 ZDB-23-DSL Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739114 print 9780674987821 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674259300 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674259300 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674259300/original |
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