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



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Autore: Nwankwo Ifeoma Kiddoe Visualizza persona
Titolo: Black cosmopolitanism : racial consciousness and transnational identity in the nineteenth-century Americas / / Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , 2005
©2005
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 291 p. )
Disciplina: 305.896/07
Soggetto topico: African Americans - Race identity
Black people - Race identity - West Indies
Cosmopolitanism
Transnationalism
African Americans - Intellectual life
Soggetto non controllato: African Studies
African-American Studies
American History
American Studies
Cultural Studies
Literature
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.
Titolo autorizzato: Black cosmopolitanism  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8122-2323-3
0-8122-9063-1
0-8122-9212-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910798111303321
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Serie: Rethinking the Americas.