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In Search of Empireby James Pritchard
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 25.00In Search of Empire is the first full account of how, during 1670 and 1730, French settlers came to the Americas. Bringing together much new evidence, it examines how they and thousands of African slaves together with American Indians constructed settlements and produced and traded commodities for export. more...
Demonic Groundsby Katherine McKittrick
University of Minnesota Press 2006; US$ 60.00Demonic Grounds moves between past and present, archives and fiction, theory and everyday, to focus on places negotiated by black women during and after the transatlantic slave trade. Specifically, Katherine McKittrick addresses the geographic implications of slave auction blocks, Harriet Jacobs's attic, black Canada and New France, as well as the conceptual spaces of feminism and Sylvia Wynter's philosophies. more...
Neither Enemies nor Friendsby Anani Dzidzienyo; Suzanne Oboler
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 110.00In this collection, leading scholars focus on the contemporary meanings and diverse experiences of blackness in specific countries of the hemisphere, including the United States. The anthology introduces new perspectives on comparative forms of racialization in the Americas and presents its implications both for Latin American societies, and for Latinos' relations with African Americans in the U.S. Contributors address issues such as: Who are the Afro-Latin Americans? What historical contributions do they bring to their respective national polities? What happens to their national and socio-racial identities as a result of migration to the United States? What is the impact of the growing presence of Afro-Latin Americans within U.S. Latino... more...
Writing Race Across the Atlantic Worldby Phillip Beidler; Gary Taylor
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 34.00This collection of original essays explores the origins of contemporary notions of race in the oceanic interculture of the Atlantic world in the early modern period. In doing so, it breaks down institutional boundaries between 'American' and 'British' literature in this early period. more...
The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic Worldby Toyin Falola; Matt D. Childs
Indiana University Press 2005; US$ 23.75This innovative anthology focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this anthology will allow students to trace the experiences of one cultural group throughout the cycle of the slave experience in the Americas. The 19 essays, employing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, provide a detailed study of how the Yoruba were integrated into the Atlantic world through the slave trade and slavery, the transformations of Yoruba identities and culture, and the strategies for resistance employed... more...
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americasby Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
The University of North Carolina Press 2005; US$ 49.95The survival of African ethnic identities through four hundred years of the Atlantic slave trade. more...
In the Shadow of Slaveryby Judith Carney
University of California Press 2009; US$ 50.00The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. In the Shadow of Slavery provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were forced to produce to the foods they planted for their own nourishment. Many familiar foods?millet, sorghum, coffee, okra, watermelon, and the ?Asian? long bean, for example?are native to Africa, while commercial products such as Coca Cola, Worcestershire Sauce, and Palmolive Soap rely on African plants that were brought to the Americas on slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage, and bedding.... more...
Identity in the Shadow of Slaveryby Paul E. Lovejoy
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 29.95Addresses issues relating to the gender, ethnic and cultural factors through which enslaved Africans and their descendents interpreted their lives under slavery, thereby creating communities with a shared sense of identity. The focus of the book is on the ways in which identities were formulated under slavery and the ways in which the struggle to escape slavery and its legacy continued to affect the lives of descendents of slaves.The introductory essay explores an approach to the study of the African diaspora that looks outward from Africa and places the following chapters, written by leading aurthorities from Europe and North and South America, in the context of the theoretical literature. more...
Crossroads and Cosmologiesby Christopher C Fennell
UPF 2007; US$ 34.95A far-reaching anthropological study of African and African American religions, German American folkways, and archaeological methodology more...
In the Shadow of Slaveryby Judith Carney
University of California Press 2011; US$ 18.95The transatlantic slave trade forced millions of Africans into bondage. Until the early nineteenth century, African slaves came to the Americas in greater numbers than Europeans. In the Shadow of Slavery provides a startling new assessment of the Atlantic slave trade and upends conventional wisdom by shifting attention from the crops slaves were forced to produce to the foods they planted for their own nourishment. Many familiar foods?millet, sorghum, coffee, okra, watermelon, and the ?Asian? long bean, for example?are native to Africa, while commercial products such as Coca Cola, Worcestershire Sauce, and Palmolive Soap rely on African plants that were brought to the Americas on slave ships as provisions, medicines, cordage, and bedding.... more...
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