Black cosmopolitanism : racial consciousness and transnational identity in the nineteenth-century Americas / / Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798111303321
• Autore: Nwankwo Ifeoma Kiddoe
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2005; ©2005
• ISBN: 0-8122-2323-3; 0-8122-9063-1; 0-8122-9212-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 291 p. )
• Collana: Rethinking the Americas
• Disciplina: 305.896/07
• Soggetti: African Americans - Race identity; Black people - Race identity - West Indies; Cosmopolitanism; Transnationalism; African Americans - Intellectual life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE: The Making of a Race (Man) -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The View from Above: Plácido Through the Eyes of the Cuban Colonial Government and White Abolitionists -- Chapter 2. The View from Next Door: Plácido Through the Eyes of U.S. Black Abolitionists -- PART TWO: Both (Race) and (Nation)? -- Introduction -- Chapter 3. On Being Black and Cuban: Race, Nation, and Romanticism in the Poetry of Plácido -- Chapter 4. "We Intend to Stay Here": The International Shadows in Frederick Douglass's Representations of African American Community -- Chapter 5. "More a Haitian Than an American": Frederick Douglass and the Black World Beyond the United States -- PART THREE: Negating Nation, Rejecting Race -- Introduction -- Chapter 6. A Slave's Cosmopolitanism: Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, and the Geography of Identity -- Chapter 7. Disidentification as Identity: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Flight from Blackness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: What are the perceived differences among African Americans, West Indians, and Afro Latin Americans? What are the hierarchies implicit in those perceptions, and when and how did these develop? For Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo the turning point came in the wake of the Haitian Revolution of 1804. The uprising was significant because it not only brought into being the first Black republic in the Americas but also encouraged new visions of the interrelatedness of peoples of the African Diaspora. Black Cosmopolitanism looks to the aftermath of this historical moment to examine the disparities and similarities between the approaches to identity articulated by people of African descent in the United States, Cuba, and the British West Indies during the nineteenth century.In Black Cosmopolitanism, Nwankwo contends that whites' fears of the Haitian Revolution and its potentially contagious nature virtually forced people of African descent throughout the Americas who were in the public eye to articulate their stance toward the event. While some U.S. writers, like William Wells Brown, chose not to mention the existence of people of African heritage in other countries, others, like David Walker, embraced the Haitian Revolution and the message that it sent. Particularly in print, people of African descent had to decide where to position themselves and whether to emphasize their national or cosmopolitan, transnational identities.Through readings of slave narratives, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, newspaper editorials, and government documents that include texts by Frederick Douglass, the freed West Indian slave Mary Prince, and the Cuban poets Plácido and Juan Francisco Manzano, Nwankwo explicates this growing self-consciousness about publicly engaging other peoples of African descent. Ultimately, she contends, these writers configured their identities specifically to counter not only the Atlantic power structure's negation of their potential for transnational identity but also its simultaneous denial of their humanity and worthiness for national citizenship.

Robot Vision : International Workshop RobVis 2001 Auckland, New Zealand, February 16-18, 2001 Proceedings / / edited by Reinhard Klette, Shmuel Peleg, Gerald Sommer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910143602703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2001
• ISBN: 3-540-44690-7
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2001.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (X, 294 p.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 0302-9743 ; ; 1998
• Disciplina: 629.8/92637
• Soggetti: Computers; Robotics; Automation; Optical data processing; Pattern perception; Artificial intelligence; Computer graphics; Theory of Computation; Robotics and Automation; Image Processing and Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition; Artificial Intelligence; Computer Graphics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Active Perception -- Visual Cues for a Fixating Active Agent -- Tracking with a Novel Pose Estimation Algorithm -- Real-Time Tracking of Articulated Human Models Using a 3D Shape-from-Silhouette Method -- Hierarchical 3D Pose Estimation for Articulated Human Body Models from a Sequence of Volume Data -- Vision-Based Robot Localization Using Sporadic Features -- Computer Vision -- A Comparison of Feature Measurements for Kinetic Studies on Human Bodies -- Object Identification and Pose Estimation for Automatic ; Manipulation -- Toward Self-calibration of a Stereo Rig from Noisy Stereoscopic Images -- A Color Segmentation Algorithm for Real-Time Object Localization on Small Embedded Systems -- EYESCAN - A High Resolution Digital Panoramic Camera -- A Wavelet-Based Algorithm for Height from Gradients -- Enhanced Stereo Vision Using Free-Form Surface Mirrors -- Robotics & Video -- RoboCup-99: A Student’s Perspective -- Horus: Object Orientation and Id without Additional Markers -- An Stereoscopic Vision System Guiding an Autonomous Helicopter for Overhead Power Cable Inspection -- 3D Stereo Vision-Based Nursing Robot for Elderly Health Care -- Efficient Computation of Intensity Profiles for Real-Time Vision -- Subpixel Flow Detection by the Hough Transform -- Tracking of Moving Heads in Cluttered Scenes from Stereo Vision -- Servoing Mechanisms for Peg-In-Hole Assembly Operations -- Robot Localization Using Omnidirectional Color Images -- The Background Subtraction Problem for Video Surveillance Systems -- Computational Stereo -- Stable Monotonic Matching for Stereoscopic Vision -- Random Sampling and Voting Method for Three-Dimensional Reconstruction -- Binocular Stereo by Maximizing the Likelihood Ratio Relative to a Random Terrain -- Stereo Reconstruction from Polycentric Panoramas -- Robotic Vision -- Two Modules of a Vision-Based Robotic System: Attention and Accumulation of Object Representations -- Compatibilities for the Perception-Action Cycle -- Trifocal Tensors with Grassmann-Cayley Algebra -- Camera Calibration Using Rectangular Textures -- Image Acquisition -- Optical Flow in Log-mapped Image Plane -- Hypothetically Modeled Perceptual Sensory Modality of Human Visual Selective Attention Scheme by PFC-Based Network -- Results of Test Flights with the Airborne Digital Sensor ADS40 -- Localized Video Compression for Machine Vision.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Robot Vision, RobVis 2001, held in Auckland, New Zealand in February 2001.The 17 revised full papers presented together with 17 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. The papers and posters are organized in topical sections on active perception, computer vision, robotics and video, computational stereo, robotic vision, and image acquisition.