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Santeria from Africa to the New World
The Dead Sell Memories
Häftad, 1997
204 kr
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"On his own terms, Brandon more than fulfills his promise to take the reader on the transatlantic journey of the orisha and to explore the complexities of African memory in the diaspora." —American Historical Review"He adeptly addresses broader issues, such as power relations within Caribbean …
World of the Haitian Revolution
Av David Patrick Geggus, Norman Fiering
Häftad, 2009
302 kr
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In January 1804, the once wealthy colony of Saint-Domingue declared its independence from France and adopted the Amerindian name "Haiti." Independence was the outcome of the extraordinary uprising of the colony's slaves. Although a central event in the history of the French in the New World, the …
Creolizing the Metropole
Migrant Caribbean Identities in Literature and Film
Häftad, 2012
380 kr
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Creolizing the Metropole is a comparative study of postwar West Indian migration to the former colonial capitals of Paris and London. It studies the effects of this population shift on national and cultural identity and traces the postcolonial Caribbean experience through analyses of the concepts …
Contemporary African American Literature
The Living Canon
Av Lovalerie King, Shirley Moody-Turner
Inbunden, 2013
1119 kr
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In this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contemporary black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies. Distinguished scholars Houston Baker, Trudier …
Contemporary African American Literature
The Living Canon
Av Lovalerie King, Shirley Moody-Turner
Häftad, 2013
380 kr
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In this volume, Lovalerie King and Shirley Moody-Turner have compiled a collection of essays that offer access to some of the most innovative contemporary black fiction while addressing important issues in current African American literary studies. Distinguished scholars Houston Baker, Trudier …
Free and French in the Caribbean
Toussaint Louverture, Aimé Césaire, and Narratives of Loyal Opposition
Inbunden, 2013
885 kr
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In Free and French in the Caribbean, John Patrick Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the decolonializing of the French Caribbean: the revolution that freed the French colony of Saint-Domingue in …
Nation of Cowards
Black Activism in Barack Obama's Post-Racial America
Av David H. Ikard, Martell Lee Teasley
Inbunden, 2012
373 kr
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In a speech from which Nation of Cowards derives its title, Attorney General Eric Holder argued forcefully that Americans today need to talk more—not less—about racism. This appeal for candid talk about race exposes the paradox of Barack Obama's historic rise to the US presidency and the …
Free and French in the Caribbean
Toussaint Louverture, Aimé Césaire, and Narratives of Loyal Opposition
Häftad, 2013
297 kr
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In Free and French in the Caribbean, John Patrick Walsh studies the writings of Toussaint Louverture and Aimé Césaire to examine how they conceived of and narrated two defining events in the decolonializing of the French Caribbean: the revolution that freed the French colony of Saint-Domingue in …
That the Blood Stay Pure
African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in Virginia
Av Arica L. Coleman, Frederic Wright Gleach m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
364 kr
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That the Blood Stay Pure traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia's effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans. Arica L. Coleman tells the story of Virginia's racial purity campaign from the perspective of …
Legacy of the Lash
Race and Corporal Punishment in the Brazilian Navy and the Atlantic World
Av Zachary R. Morgan, Marcus Rediker
Inbunden, 2014
761 kr
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Legacy of the Lash is a compelling social and cultural history of the Brazilian navy in the decades preceding and immediately following the 1888 abolition of slavery in Brazil. Focusing on non-elite, mostly black enlisted men and the oppressive labor regimes under which they struggled, the book is …
Deep Roots
Rice Farmers in West Africa and the African Diaspora
Häftad, 2014
340 kr
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Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more …
Cuba's Racial Crucible
The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000
Inbunden, 2015
935 kr
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Since the 19th century, assertions of a common, racially-mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of Cubans as racially white. For the past two centuries, these competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained in continuous tension, while Cuban …
Cuba's Racial Crucible
The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750-2000
Häftad, 2015
355 kr
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Since the 19th century, assertions of a common, racially-mixed Cuban identity based on acceptance of African descent have challenged the view of Cubans as racially white. For the past two centuries, these competing views of Cuban racial identity have remained in continuous tension, while Cuban …
Freedom from Liberation
Slavery, Sentiment, and Literature in Cuba
Inbunden, 2015
572 kr
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By exploring the complexities of enslavement in the autobiography of Cuban slave-poet Juan Francisco Manzano (1797–1854), Gerard Aching complicates the universally recognized assumption that a slave's foremost desire is to be freed from bondage. As the only slave narrative in Spanish that has …
Gold Coast Diasporas
Identity, Culture, and Power
Av Walter C. Rucker, John K. Thornton
Inbunden, 2015
645 kr
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Although they came from distinct polities and peoples who spoke different languages, slaves from the African Gold Coast were collectively identified by Europeans as "Coromantee" or "Mina." Why these ethnic labels were embraced and how they were utilized by enslaved Africans to develop new group …
Race and the Literary Encounter
Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett
Inbunden, 2015
1044 kr
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What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes as its …
Race and the Literary Encounter
Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett
Häftad, 2015
380 kr
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What effect has the black literary imagination attempted to have on, in Toni Morrison's words, "a race of readers that understands itself to be 'universal' or race-free"? How has black literature challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act? Race and the Literary Encounter takes as its …
Class, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement
Häftad, 2019
355 kr
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Race, Class, and the Civil Rights Movement is a unique sociohistorical analysis of the civil rights movement. In it, Jack M. Bloom analyzes the interaction between the economy and political systems in the South, which led to racial stratification.Praise for the first edition:"A unique …
Class, Race, and the Civil Rights Movement
Inbunden, 2019
935 kr
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Race, Class, and the Civil Rights Movement is a unique sociohistorical analysis of the civil rights movement. In it, Jack M. Bloom analyzes the interaction between the economy and political systems in the South, which led to racial stratification.Praise for the first edition:"A unique …
Color, Sex, and Poetry
Three Women Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
Häftad, 1987
253 kr
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" . . . absorbing biographical study . . . " —Black Enterprise"Meticulously researched and thoroughly engaging . . . " —Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature" . . . a splendid study . . . excellent . . . " —Choice"Color, Sex, and Poetry provides both the bread and the meat of critical analysis and …
Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer
Essays and Speeches
Av Maryilyn Richardson, Marilyn Richardson
Häftad, 1987
227 kr
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" . . . enthusiastic, well-written . . . read it if you want to be inspired by a truly heroic woman." —New Directions for Women" . . . the fullest account to date of Stewart's life and an excellent basis for understanding Stewart's work." —History"This is informative and inspiring source material …
Black Female Playwrights
An Anthology of Plays Before 1950
Häftad, 1990
302 kr
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"Fine reading and a superb resource." —Ms."Highly recommended." —Library Journal"Perkins has chosen the plays well, and her issue-oriented introduction places the women and their works in a literary and historical context." —Choice"As well as being centered on the black experience, the plays in …
Screenplays of the African American Experience
Häftad, 1991
263 kr
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Six independent African American filmmakers, including Charles Burnett, director of the film To Sleep with Anger, are represented in this collection by screenplays produced from 1973 to 1989. They speak in their own voice, a black voice which has resisted the cultural dominance of Hollywood. …
Great Migration in Historical Perspective
New Dimensions of Race, Class, and Gender
Häftad, 1991
227 kr
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"The essays collected in this book represent the best of our present understanding of the African-American migration which began in the early twentieth century." —Southern Historian"As an overview of a field in transition, this is a valuable and deeply thought-provoking anthology." —Pennsylvania …
African Cinema
Politics and Culture
Häftad, 1992
264 kr
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"Manthia Diawara is quite simply the best critic (in any language) currently writing on African cinema." —Robert Stam"Diawara has produced a useful history, a cogent analysis, and, in his arguments on how African cinema should develop, an undoubtedly controversial book." —Studies in Popular …
Binding Cultures
Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora
Av Gay Wilentz
Häftad, 1992
188 kr
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"Wilentz . . . makes convincing arguments for the connections between African and Afro-American women's culture." —Nellie McKay"Wilentz's jargon-free, intelligent discussion . . . will appeal to students in African, African American, and women's literature courses, as well as general readers …
Richard B. Moore, Caribbean Militant in Harlem
Collected Writings 1920–1972
Av W. Burghardt Turner, Joyce Moore Turner
Häftad, 1992
227 kr
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"[This] critical edition of a selection of Richard B. Moore's essays closes one more gap in the astonishing history of twentieth-century Afro-American nationalism." —Journal of American History"This first collection of Moore's writings . . . [is] a welcome and important contribution to scholarship …
Crosswinds
An Anthology of Black Dramatists in the Diaspora
Häftad, 1993
580 kr
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"H[starred review] Powerful and rich, this outstanding contribution to theater arts is recommended for contemporary literature and black studies collections." —Library JournalEdited by award-winning U.S. playwright William Branch, this is a landmark collection of plays addressing various aspects of …
Women in the Civil Rights Movement
Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941–1965
Av Vicki L. Crawford, Jacqueline Anne Rouse m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
263 kr
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"[Women in the Civil Rights Movement] helps break the gender line that restricted women in civil rights history to background and backstage roles, and places them in front, behind, and in the middle of the Southern movement that re-made America. . . . It is an invaluable resource which helps set …
Rumba
Dance and Social Change in Contemporary Cuba
Häftad, 1995
220 kr
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Using dance anthropology to illuminate the values and attitudes embodied in rumba, Yvonne Daniel explores the surprising relationship between dance and the profound, complex changes in contemporary Cuba.From the barrio and streets to the theatre and stage, rumba has emerged as an important medium, …
