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Diasporic Africa a reader / edited by Michael A. Gomez.
| Other author | Gomez, Michael Angelo, 1955- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : New York University Press, |
| Description | viii, 317 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction: Diasporic Africa: a view from history / Michael A. Gomez -- PART I. TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE CULTURAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DURING SLAVERY -- In an ocean of blue: West African Indigo workers in the Atlantic world to 1800 / Frederick Knight -- Batuque: African drumming and dance between repression and concession: Bahia, 1808-1855 / João José Reis -- The evolution of ritual in the African diaspora: Central African Kilundu in Brazil, St. Domingue, and the United States, seventeenth-nineteenth centuries / James H. Sweet -- PART II. MEMORY AND INSTANTIATIONS OF THE DIVINE -- Bitter herbs and a lock of hair: recollections of African in slave narratives of the Garrisonian Era / Jermaine O. Archer -- Embracing the religious profession: the antebellum mission of the Oblate Sisters of Providence / Diane Batts Morrow -- Finding the past, making the future: the African Hebrew Israelite community's alternative to the Black Diaspora / Fran Markowitz -- Spatial responses of the African diaspora in Jamaica: focus on Rastafarian architecture / Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis -- PART III. RECONFIGURING THE POLITICAL / CONTESTING THE CONCEPTUAL -- Blacks and slavery in Morocco: the question of the Haratin at the end of the seventeenth century / Chouki El Hamel -- Race and the making of the nation: blacks in modern France / Tyler Stovall -- "[She] devoted twenty minutes condemning all other forms of government but the Soviet": black women radicals in the Garvey Movement and in the Left during the 1920s / Erik S. McDuffie -- "Boundaries of law and disorder": the "grand design" of Eldridge Cleaver and the "overseas revolution" in Cuba / Rose C. Thevenin -- Writing the diaspora in black international literature "with wider hope in some more benign fluid...": diaspora consciousness and literary expression / Wendy W. Walters -- Displacing diaspora: trafficking, African women, and transnational practices / Asale Angel-Ajani. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2005019518 |
| ISBN | 0814731651 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 081473166X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780814731659 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780814731666 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |