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Introduction Diasporic Africa: A View from History
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Part I. Transformations of the Cultural and Technological during Slavery
1. In an Ocean of Blue:West African Indigo Workers in the Atlantic World to 1800
2. Batuque: African Drumming and Dance between Repression and Concession: Bahia, 1808-1855
3. The Evolution of Ritual in the African Diaspora: Central African Kilundu in Brazil, St. Domingue, and the United States, Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries
Part II. Memory and Instantiations of the Divine
4. Bitter Herbs and a Lock of Hair: Recollections of Africa in Slave Narratives of the Garrisonian Era
5. Embracing the Religious Profession: The Antebellum Mission of the Oblate Sisters of Providence
6. Finding the Past, Making the Future: The African Hebrew Israelite Community's Alternative to the Black Diaspora
7. Spatial Responses of the African Diaspora in Jamaica: Focus on Rastafarian Architecture
Part III. Reconfiguring the Political/Contesting the Conceptual
8. Blacks and Slavery in Morocco: The Question of the Haratin at the End of the Seventeenth Century
9. Race and theMaking of the Nation: Blacks inModern France
10. "[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
11. "Boundaries of Law and Disorder": The "Grand Design" of Eldridge Cleaver and the "Overseas Revolution" in Cuba
12. Writing the Diaspora in Black International Literature "With Wider Hope in Some More Benign Fluid . . .": Diaspora Consciousness and Literary Expression
13. Displacing Diaspora: Trafficking, African Women, and Transnational Practices
About the Contributors
Index
Contents
Introduction Diasporic Africa: A View from History
Contributors
Part I. Transformations of the Cultural and Technological during Slavery
1. In an Ocean of Blue:West African Indigo Workers in the Atlantic World to 1800
2. Batuque: African Drumming and Dance between Repression and Concession: Bahia, 1808-1855
3. The Evolution of Ritual in the African Diaspora: Central African Kilundu in Brazil, St. Domingue, and the United States, Seventeenth-Nineteenth Centuries
Part II. Memory and Instantiations of the Divine
4. Bitter Herbs and a Lock of Hair: Recollections of Africa in Slave Narratives of the Garrisonian Era
5. Embracing the Religious Profession: The Antebellum Mission of the Oblate Sisters of Providence
6. Finding the Past, Making the Future: The African Hebrew Israelite Community's Alternative to the Black Diaspora
7. Spatial Responses of the African Diaspora in Jamaica: Focus on Rastafarian Architecture
Part III. Reconfiguring the Political/Contesting the Conceptual
8. Blacks and Slavery in Morocco: The Question of the Haratin at the End of the Seventeenth Century
9. Race and theMaking of the Nation: Blacks inModern France
10. "[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
11. "Boundaries of Law and Disorder": The "Grand Design" of Eldridge Cleaver and the "Overseas Revolution" in Cuba
12. Writing the Diaspora in Black International Literature "With Wider Hope in Some More Benign Fluid . . .": Diaspora Consciousness and Literary Expression
13. Displacing Diaspora: Trafficking, African Women, and Transnational Practices
About the Contributors
Index