Diasporic Africa A Reader

Name: Diasporic Africa A Reader
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ISBN: 9780814731666

ISBN-10: 081473166X

ISBN-13: 9780814731666

Edition: 2006

Authors: Michael A. Gomez

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"These 13 well-written scholarly essays are an eclectic compilation covering disparate topics, places, and time periods relating to the African Diaspora. . . . Recommended." --"Choice" Thus this book will be fruitful for ongoing debates on Diaspora and transnationalism and is indispensable for anyone interested in African Diaspora studies. --Journal of African History "This sparkling mosaic of thought from the African Diaspora redraws the boundaries of relevant scholarship to the benefit of a wide array of students and scholars. A greatly needed volume." --P. Sterling Stuckey, Presidential Chair and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, University of California at Riverside "A…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 1/1/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 317
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Michael Gomez is professor of history and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University. He is the author of Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South.



Introduction Diasporic Africa: A View from History




Transformations of the Cultural and Technological during Slavery



In an Ocean of Blue: West African Indigo Workers in the Atlantic World to 1800




Batuque: African Drumming and Dance between Repression and Concession: Bahia, 1808-1855




The Evolution of Ritual in the African Diaspora: Central African Kilundu in Brazil, St. Domingue, and the United States, Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries




Memory and Instantiations of the Divine



Bitter Herbs and a Lock of Hair: Recollections of Africa in Slave Narratives of the Garrisonian Era




Embracing the Religious Profession: The Antebellum Mission of the Oblate Sisters of Providence




Finding the Past, Making the Future: The African Hebrew Israelite Community's Alternative to the Black Diaspora




Spatial Responses of the African Diaspora in Jamaica: Focus on Rastafarian Architecture




Reconfiguring the Political/Contesting the Conceptual



Blacks and Slavery in Morocco: The Question of the Haratin at the End of the Seventeenth Century




Race and the Making of the Nation: Blacks in Modern France




"[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




"Boundaries of Law and Disorder": The "Grand Design" of Eldridge Cleaver and the "Overseas Revolution" in Cuba




Writing the Diaspora in Black International Literature "With Wider Hope in Some More Benign Fluid ...": Diaspora Consciousness and Literary Expression




Displacing Diaspora: Trafficking, African Women, and Transnational Practices



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