Posts Tagged ‘african diaspora’
Jason R. Young, Rituals of Resistance: African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011. From the Louisiana State University Press website: In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region [...]
If recent scholarship has focused on the memory of slavery in the United States, few works have dealt with the public memory of slavery from a transnational perspective. When examining the role of the African Diaspora in the reconstructions of the slave past, most authors have limited their analysis to the African American community and [...]
Long, Carolyn Morrow. Spiritual Merchants: Religion Magic & Commerce. 1st ed. Univ Tennessee Press, 2001. They can be found along the side streets of many American cities: herb or candle shops catering to practitioners of Voodoo, hoodoo, Santería, and similar beliefs. Here one can purchase ritual items and raw materials for the fabrication of traditional [...]
Martin Munro, Different Drummers: Rhythm and Race in the Americas. Berkley: University of California Press, 2010 Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book’s dazzling, wide-ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. Martin Munro’s groundbreaking work traces the central—and contested—role of music in shaping identities, politics, [...]
This reconstruction of one of the rare Caribbean slave narratives is an amplification, interrogation, and modification of its original texts by crossreference with official documents, contemporary diaryentries and reports, presentday oral sources, and secondary analyses of plantation society. Accessing a variety of primary records, Maureen Warner-Lewis meticulously reconstructs a biography of enslaved Archibald Monteath, an [...]
Curated by Alejandro de la Fuente and Elio Rodríguez Valdés Queloides/Keloids “is an art exhibit that seeks to contribute to current debates about the persistence of racism in contemporary Cuba and elsewhere in the world.“ Twelve artists are participating as the project moves from Havana, Cuba to Pittsburgh over the course of 2010-2011 including Pedro [...]
The following articles appear in the June 2010 Issue of Slavery & Abolition: Amani Marshall, “‘They Will Endeavor to Pass for Free’: Enslaved Runaways’ Performances of Freedom in Antebellum South Carolina” Emily Berquist, “Early Antislavery Sentiment in the Spanish Atlantic World, 1765-1817″ Kathryn Gin, “‘The Heavenization of Earth’: African American Visions and Uses of the [...]
Ivor L. Miller. Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba. Caribbean Studies Series. Jackson University Press of Mississippi, 2009. In Voice of the Leopard: African Secret Societies and Cuba, Ivor L. Miller shows how African migrants and their political fraternities played a formative role in the history of Cuba. During the eighteenth and [...]
We are pleased to announce three issues of Tubman Newsletter: number 20 from July to September 2009, number 21 from October to December 2009, and number 22 from January to March 2010. All issues are available on Tubman website (www.yorku.ca/tubman). Two other issues are being prepared and will be available soon. It is great to [...]
