Gendering the African Diaspora Women, Culture, and Historical Change in the Caribbean and Nigerian Hinterland

Name: Gendering the African Diaspora Women, Culture, and Historical Change in the Caribbean and Nigerian Hinterland
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ISBN: 9780253221537

ISBN-10: 0253221536

ISBN-13: 9780253221537

Edition: 2010

Authors: Judith A. Byfield, LaRay Denzer, Anthea Morrison, Faith Lois Smith, Linda Sturtz

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This volume builds on and extends current discussions of the construction of gendered identities and the networks through which men and women engage diaspora. It considers the movement of people and ideas between the Caribbean and the Nigerian hinterland. The contributions examine Africa in the Caribbean imaginary, the way in which gender ideologies inform Caribbean men's and women's theoretical or real-life engagement with the continent, and the interactions and experiences of Caribbean travelers in Africa and Europe. The contributions are linked as well through empire, discussing different parts of the British Empire and allowing for the comparative examination of colonial policies and…

Book details

Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 2/16/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Judith Byfield is associate professor of history at Dartmouth College where she teaches courses in African history.

LaRay Denzer teaches at Northwestern University where she is a member of the Program of African Studies.



Preface


A Note on the Structure of the Volume


Introduction



Africa in the Caribbean Imagination



Of Laughter and Kola Nuts; or, What Does Africa Have to Do with the African Diaspora?




From Africa to "The Islands": New World Voyages in the Fiction of




Race, Gender, and Agency in the Shadow of Slavery



Mary Rose: "White" African Jamaican Woman? Race and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica




Trading Places: Market Negotiations in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands




Blacks in the White Imagination: Race in the Investigation of Rape on Nineteenth-Century Emigrant Ships to the Colonial Caribbean




Maria Jones of Africa, St. Vincent, and Trinidad




Slavery, Marriage, and Gender Relations in Eastern Yorubaland, 1875-1920




On Equal/Unequal Footing with Men: Diaspora Linkages and Issues of Gender and Education Policy in Barbados, 1875-1945




Building Diaspora in the Web of Empire



Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Nigerian Progress Union




"Crack Kernels, Crack Hitler": Export Production Drive and Igbo Women during the Second World War




Intersections: Nigerian Episodes in the Careers of Three West Indian Women




Immigrant Voices in Cyberspace: Spinning Continental and Diasporan Africans into the World Wide Web



Notes on Contributors


Index