Diasporic Africa [[electronic resource] ] : a reader / / edited by Michael A. Gomez

• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: viii, 317 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 909/.0496
• Soggetto topico: African diaspora - History; Black people - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: GomezMichael Angelo <1955->
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: Diasporic Africa: a view from history / Michael A. Gomez -- PART I. TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE CULTURAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DURING SLAVERY -- In an ocean of blue: West African Indigo workers in the Atlantic world to 1800 / Frederick Knight -- Batuque: African drumming and dance between repression and concession: Bahia, 1808-1855 / João José Reis -- The evolution of ritual in the African diaspora: Central African Kilundu in Brazil, St. Domingue, and the United States, seventeenth-nineteenth centuries / James H. Sweet -- PART II. MEMORY AND INSTANTIATIONS OF THE DIVINE -- Bitter herbs and a lock of hair: recollections of African in slave narratives of the Garrisonian Era / Jermaine O. Archer -- Embracing the religious profession: the antebellum mission of the Oblate Sisters of Providence / Diane Batts Morrow -- Finding the past, making the future: the African Hebrew Israelite community's alternative to the Black Diaspora / Fran Markowitz -- Spatial responses of the African diaspora in Jamaica: focus on Rastafarian architecture / Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis -- PART III. RECONFIGURING THE POLITICAL / CONTESTING THE CONCEPTUAL -- Blacks and slavery in Morocco: the question of the Haratin at the end of the seventeenth century / Chouki El Hamel -- Race and the making of the nation: blacks in modern France / Tyler Stovall -- "[She] devoted twenty minutes condemning all other forms of government but the Soviet": black women radicals in the Garvey Movement and in the Left during the 1920s / Erik S. McDuffie -- "Boundaries of law and disorder": the "grand design" of Eldridge Cleaver and the "overseas revolution" in Cuba / Rose C. Thevenin -- Writing the diaspora in black international literature "with wider hope in some more benign fluid...": diaspora consciousness and literary expression / Wendy W. Walters -- Displacing diaspora: trafficking, African women, and transnational practices / Asale Angel-Ajani.
• Titolo autorizzato: Diasporic Africa
• ISBN: 1-4356-0032-0; 0-8147-3322-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910454234803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II