LEADER 05254nam 2200685 450 001 9910465373803321 005 20220207173421.0 010 $a0-8122-2323-3 010 $a0-8122-9063-1 010 $a0-8122-9212-X 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812292121 035 $a(CKB)3710000000656364 035 $a(OCoLC)656504354 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35265 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442354 035 $a(DE-B1597)463535 035 $a(OCoLC)883516320 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812292121 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442354 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10851095 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682377 035 $a(OCoLC)932313156 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000656364 100 $a20140331h20052005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBlack cosmopolitanism $eracial consciousness and transnational identity in the nineteenth-century Americas /$fIfeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo 210 1$aPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d2005. 210 4$d©2005 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 291 p. ) 225 1 $aRethinking the Americas 311 $a1-322-51095-4 311 $a0-8122-3878-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tPART ONE: The Making of a Race (Man) --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. The View from Above: Plácido Through the Eyes of the Cuban Colonial Government and White Abolitionists --$tChapter 2. The View from Next Door: Plácido Through the Eyes of U.S. Black Abolitionists --$tPART TWO: Both (Race) and (Nation)? --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 3. On Being Black and Cuban: Race, Nation, and Romanticism in the Poetry of Plácido --$tChapter 4. "We Intend to Stay Here": The International Shadows in Frederick Douglass's Representations of African American Community --$tChapter 5. "More a Haitian Than an American": Frederick Douglass and the Black World Beyond the United States --$tPART THREE: Negating Nation, Rejecting Race --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 6. A Slave's Cosmopolitanism: Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, and the Geography of Identity --$tChapter 7. Disidentification as Identity: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Flight from Blackness --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aWhat 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. 410 0$aRethinking the Americas. 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity 606 $aBlack people$xRace identity$zWest Indies 606 $aCosmopolitanism 606 $aTransnationalism 606 $aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity. 615 0$aBlack people$xRace identity 615 0$aCosmopolitanism. 615 0$aTransnationalism. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xIntellectual life. 676 $a305.896/07 700 $aNwankwo$b Ifeoma Kiddoe$0863682 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910465373803321 996 $aBlack cosmopolitanism$92449613 997 $aUNINA