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Autore: | Essien Kwame |
Titolo: | Brazilian-African diaspora in Ghana : the Tabom, slavery, dissonance of memory, identity and locating home / / Kwame Essien |
Pubblicazione: | East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2016 |
©2016 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (403 p.) |
Disciplina: | 966.700496081 |
Soggetto topico: | Freed persons - Ghana - History |
Immigrants - Ghana - History | |
Africans - Brazil - Emigration and immigration - History | |
Children of immigrants - Ghana - History | |
Soggetto geografico: | Ghana Emigration and immigration History |
Ghana Colonial influence | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Reverse diaspora: dissonance of memory, voyages of hope and degrees of return -- Historicizing the returnee presence in Gã Mã -- The social history of Gã Mã (Accra), colonialism, and their impact on the Brazilian-African diaspora -- The evolution of land in Gã Mã and Brazilian-African diaspora: paradox of freedom and the birth of conflicts -- Escaping slavery into colonialism and squabbles: how colonial projects and internal disputes threatened Brazilian land/diaspora -- Brazilians together, Brazilians apart: the "family trees" and the process of becoming Gã -- (Re) creating Brazilian slavery in an enabling environment -- Contributions by the Brazilian-Africans and the Tabom -- "Fading" diaspora and memory: how the Brazilian government and the Tabom are preserving Brazil House and crisscrossing the Atlantic in full circle -- Epilogue: telescoping Lula's unfulfilled promise and implications for the Tabom's visit to Brazil. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Brazilian-African diaspora in Ghana |
ISBN: | 1-62895-277-6 |
1-60917-504-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910798504803321 |
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