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Köp båda 2 för 1662 krThis collection of compact biographies puts a human face on the sweeping historical processes that shaped contemporary societies throughout the Atlantic world. Focusing on life stories that represented movement across or around the Atlantic Ocean ...
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This wonderful addition to the growing scholarship attempts, quite successfully, to add a human face to the black Atlantic. A topical bibliography and a filmography provide instructors and students alike a guide for further research. Highly recommended. * CHOICE * This is the richest and most scholarly collection of individual narratives shaped by the African diaspora since Philip Curtin's Africa Remembered of more than forty years ago. These thirteen biographies span four centuries and offer a compellingly diverse range of the black Atlantic experience. Essential reading for all historians of the Atlantic World. -- David Eltis, Emory University Indispensable for anyone interested in Black Atlantic history. Through well-researched and well-written biographies, the authors move beyond Eurocentric approaches to the past by showing the central role of Africans and their Afro-American descendants in the making of the early modern and modern Atlantic World. -- Walter Hawthorne, Michigan State University
Beatriz G. Mamigonian is professor of history at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. Karen Racine is associate professor of Latin American history at the University of Guelph, Canada.
Introduction: People in the Making of the Black Atlantic Chapter 1: Alonso de Illescas (1530s1580s): African, Ladino, and Maroon Leader in Colonial Ecuador Chapter 2: Gregoria Lpez (1680s): A Mexican Mulata Defends Her Honor Chapter 3: Philip Quaque (17411816): African Anglican Missionary on the Gold Coast Chapter 4: Harry Washington (1760s1790s): A Founding Father's Slave Chapter 5: Rufino Jos Maria (1820s1850s): A Muslim in the Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Slave Trade Circuit Chapter 6: Buenaventura Lucum (1820s1872): African Slave, Head of a Household, and Lottery Winner in Cuba Chapter 7: Blaise Diagne (18721934): Senegal's Deputy to the French National Assembly Chapter 8: Phyllis Ann Edmeade (1920s): Caribbean Migrant Worker Deported from the United States Chapter 9: C. L. R. James (19011989): The Black Jacobin Chapter 10: Robert Robinson (1930s): Celebrity Worker in the USSR Chapter 11: Vicente Ferreira Pastinha (18891981): The "Angolan" Tradition of Capoeira Chapter 12: Malcolm X (19251965): A Pan-African Revolutionary Chapter 13: Romare Bearden (1911-1988): Artist, Intellectual, Activist Suggested Readings by Topic Selected Filmography on the Black Atlantic