No more, no more : slavery and cultural resistance in Havana and New Orleans / / Daniel E. Walker

• Autore: Walker Daniel E
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (204 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.8/763/35
• Soggetto topico: Slavery - Louisiana - New Orleans - History; Slavery - Cuba - Havana - History; Slaves - Louisiana - New Orleans - Social conditions; Slaves - Cuba - Havana - Social conditions; Social control - Louisiana - New Orleans - History; Social control - Cuba - Havana - History
• Soggetto geografico: New Orleans (La.) Race relations; Havana (Cuba) Race relations; New Orleans (La.) Social conditions; Havana (Cuba) Social conditions
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-185) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: El Dia de Reyes and Congo Square : links to Africa and the Americas -- Defining space : social control and public space -- Regulating domesticity : the fight for the family -- Imagining the African/imagining blackness -- Negotiating racial hierarchies : the threat of unity.
• Sommario/riassunto: This ambitious book looks at how people of African descent in two societies-Havana and New Orleans in the nineteenth century-created their own forms of cultural resistance to the slave regime's assault. No More, No More elucidates the economic, social, cultural, and demographic operations at work in two cities and the efforts at cultural resistance embodied in public performances.
• Titolo autorizzato: No more, no more
• ISBN: 0-8166-9582-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814340203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II