Brazilian-African diaspora in Ghana : the Tabom, slavery, dissonance of memory, identity and locating home / / Kwame Essien

• Autore: Essien Kwame
• 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.: 9910807311403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Ruth Simms Hamilton African diaspora series.