03295nam a2200361 a 4500 ebr10170572 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 050708s2006 nyua sb 001 0deng 2005019518 GBA606808 bnb 013360734 Uk 0814731651 (cloth : alk. paper) 081473166X (pbk. : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)191935670 f------ DT16.5 .D54 2006eb 909/.0496 22 Diasporic Africa [electronic resource] : a reader / edited by Michael A. Gomez. New York : New York University Press, c2006. viii, 317 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: Diasporic Africa: a view from history / Michael A. Gomez -- PART I. TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE CULTURAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL DURING SLAVERY -- In an ocean of blue: West African Indigo workers in the Atlantic world to 1800 / Frederick Knight -- Batuque: African drumming and dance between repression and concession: Bahia, 1808-1855 / Jo�ao Jos�e Reis -- The evolution of ritual in the African diaspora: Central African Kilundu in Brazil, St. Domingue, and the United States, seventeenth-nineteenth centuries / James H. Sweet -- PART II. MEMORY AND INSTANTIATIONS OF THE DIVINE -- Bitter herbs and a lock of hair: recollections of African in slave narratives of the Garrisonian Era / Jermaine O. Archer -- Embracing the religious profession: the antebellum mission of the Oblate Sisters of Providence / Diane Batts Morrow -- Finding the past, making the future: the African Hebrew Israelite community's alternative to the Black Diaspora / Fran Markowitz -- Spatial responses of the African diaspora in Jamaica: focus on Rastafarian architecture / Elizabeth Pigou-Dennis -- PART III. RECONFIGURING THE POLITICAL / CONTESTING THE CONCEPTUAL -- Blacks and slavery in Morocco: the question of the Haratin at the end of the seventeenth century / Chouki El Hamel -- Race and the making of the nation: blacks in modern France / Tyler Stovall -- "[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 / Erik S. McDuffie -- "Boundaries of law and disorder": the "grand design" of Eldridge Cleaver and the "overseas revolution" in Cuba / Rose C. Thevenin -- Writing the diaspora in black international literature "with wider hope in some more benign fluid...": diaspora consciousness and literary expression / Wendy W. Walters -- Displacing diaspora: trafficking, African women, and transnational practices / Asale Angel-Ajani. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. African diaspora History. Blacks History. Electronic books. local Gomez, Michael Angelo, 1955- ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10170572 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 249606 249606