The Human Tradition in the Black Atlantic, 1500-2000 [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Mamigonian Beatriz G (Beatriz Gallotti), <1969->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (237 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.896; 920.0092960163
• Soggetto topico: Atlantic Ocean Region; Atlantic Ocean Region -- Biography; Atlantic Ocean Region - Race relations; Atlantic Ocean Region -- Race relations; Atlantic Ocean Region - Social conditions; Atlantic Ocean Region -- Social conditions; Blacks - Atlantic Ocean Region; Blacks -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- Biography; Blacks - Atlantic Ocean Region - History; Blacks -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History; Blacks - Atlantic Ocean Region - Social conditions; Blacks -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- Social conditions; Blacks - Civil rights - Atlantic Ocean Region - History; Blacks -- Civil rights -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History; Slave trade - Atlantic Ocean Region - History; Slave trade -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History; Slavery - Atlantic Ocean Region - History; Slavery -- Atlantic Ocean Region -- History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: RacineKaren <1967-> AlthouseAaron P BloomAlan CarvalhoMarcus J. M. de Perera DíazAisnara <1967-> Meriño FuentesMaría de los Ángeles <1966-> GomesFlávio dos Santos JonesHilary MedinaCharles Beatty PriceRichard PriceSally PybusCassandra ReeseTy M (Ty Michael) ReisJoão José RinearLorna Biddle RomanMeredith L (Meredith Lynn) Talmon-ChvaicerMaya <1968-> TeelucksinghJerome
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Introduction People in the Making of the Black Atlantic; Chapter 1 Alonso de Illescas (1530s-1590s): African, Ladino, and Maroon Leader in Colonial Ecuador; Chapter 2 Gregoria López (1680s): A Mexican Mulata Defends Her Honor; Chapter 3 Philip Quaque (1741-1816): African Anglican Missionary on the Gold Coast; Chapter 4 Harry Washington (1760s-1790s): A Founding Father's Slave; Chapter 5 Rufino José Maria (1820s-1850s): A Muslim in the Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Slave Trade Circuit ; Chapter 6 Buenaventura Lucumí (1820s-1872): African Slave, Head of a Household, and Lottery Winner in CubaChapter 7 Blaise Diagne (1872-1934): Senegal's Deputy to the French National Assembly; Chapter 8 Phyllis Ann Edmeade (1920s): Caribbean Migrant Worker Deported from the United States; Chapter 9 C. L. R. James (1901-1989): The Black Jacobin; Chapter 10 Robert Robinson (1930s): Celebrity Worker in the USSR; Chapter 11 Vicente Ferreira Pastinha (1889-1981): The "Angolan" Tradition of Capoeira; Chapter 12 Malcolm X (1925-1965): A Pan-African Revolutionary ; Chapter 13 Romare Bearden (1911-1988): Artist, Intellectual, Activist
• Sommario/riassunto: Like snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in this book document the making of the Black Atlantic world since the sixteenth century from the point of view of those who were part of it. Centering on the diaspora caused by the forced migration of Africans to Europe and across the Atlantic to the Americas, the chapters explore the slave trade, enslavement, resistance, adaptation, cultural transformations, and the quest for citizenship rights. Drawing on a rich array of little-known documents, the contributors reconstruct the lives and times of some well-known characte
• Titolo autorizzato: The Human Tradition in the Black Atlantic, 1500-2000
• ISBN: 1-282-47950-4; 9786612479502; 0-7425-6731-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456728703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: The Human Tradition around the World series