TY - BOOK AU - Gomez,Michael Angelo ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Diasporic Africa: a reader AV - DT16.5 .D54 2006eb U1 - 909/.0496 22 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - New York University Press KW - African diaspora KW - History KW - Blacks KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10170572 ER -