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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463801403321

Titolo

African diaspora in the cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States / / edited by Persephone Braham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newark : , : University of Delaware Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-61149-539-3

1-61149-538-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Disciplina

305.896/07

Soggetti

African diaspora

Black people - Latin America - Intellectual life

Black people - Caribbean Area - Intellectual life

African Americans - Intellectual life

Electronic books.

Latin America Civilization African influences

Caribbean Area Civilization African influences

United States Civilization African American influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

I. THE MIDDLE PASSAGE AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAS PROJECT -- Keith Morrison : Middle Passage / Julie L. McGee -- II. SLAVERY, MIGRATION, AND RACIAL IDENTITY -- The African Diaspora in the Americas : the Caribbean Dimension / Franklin W. Knight -- Afro-Antillean Presence in the Latin American Melting Pot / Carla Guerrón Montero -- Puerto Ricans in the Harlem Riot of 1935 / Lorrin Thomas -- Rethinking "Racial Democracy" : Perspectives from Black Thinkers in Twentieth-Century Brazil / Paulina L. Alberto -- III. AFRICA IN THE ARTS : MIGRATION, IMPROVISATION, EXCHANGE -- Pearl Fishing in the Caribbean : Early Images of Slavery and Forced Migration in the Americas / Mónica Domínguez-Torres -- Improvisation in the Danzón and its Ties to Early New Orleans Jazz / Robin Moore -- Afrochic : Africa in the Modernist Imagination / Camara Dia Holloway -- True



Blood : Colorblindness, Blanqueamiento, and Vampire Ethnicity in Castro's Cuba / Phillip Penix-Tadsen -- Introspection and Projection in Cuban Art / Colette Gaiter -- Hearing Reggaeton's African-American Address / Wayne Marshall -- Black-British and Other African Diaspora Artists Visualizing Slavery / Eddie Chambers -- IV. BLACK AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE GLOBAL HUMANITIES -- Race and Representation in the Digital Humanities : an Inter-American Case Study / Ifeoma Nwankwo -- Black American Studies at the University of Delaware : Education Across the Lines / Carol Henderson.

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">African Diaspora in the Cultures of Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States </span><span>upholds the transcendent interconnectedness of histories, stories, and cultural and disciplinary expression, and the centrality of the Middle Passage in connecting Harlem and Brooklyn to Havana, Kingston, and Rio de Janeiro. </span></span>