This title explores the ways in which identities were formulated under slavery and the continuing legacy affecting the lives of descendants. It addresses issues relating to the gender, ethnic and cultural factors through which enslaved Africans and their descendants interpreted their lives under slavery thereby creating communities with a shared sense of identity. The book focuses on the ways in which identities were formulated under slavery and how the struggle to escape slavery and its legacy continues to affect the lives of descendants. 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 authorities from Europe and North and South America, in the context of the theoretical literature. "The Harriet Tubman Series" explores the African Diaspora in historical and contemporary times. It is named after Harriet Tubman (c. 1820-1913), who as a young woman fled slavery to help others escape to Canada on the Underground Railroad.
"The Tubman Series" examines all aspects of the global migrations of African peoples, whether under conditions of slavery, or more recently as a product of the postcolonial conditions of the global society. The series encourages studies which focus on the quest for social justice and equitable conditions of life in the African diaspora as revealed in history, literary studies, culture, and the performing arts.
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Höhe: 228 mm
Breite: 153 mm
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978-0-8264-0396-4 (9780826403964)
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Paul E. Lovejoy, Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of History at York University, holds the Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History and is Director of the Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples. He is the author or editor of numerous volumes on the African diaspora.
List of Illustrations; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Identifying Enslaved Africans in the African Diaspora - Paul E. Lovejoy; 2 Cimarron Ethnicity and Cultural Adaptation in the Spanish Domains of the Cirum-Caribbean, 1503-1763 - Jane Landers; 3 Tracing Igbo into the African Diaspora - Douglas B. Chambers; 4 Regla de Ocha-Ifa and the Construction of Cuban Identity - Christine Ayorinde; 5 Cultural Zones in the Era of the Slave Trade: Exploring the Yoruba Connection with the Anlo-Ewe - Sandra E. Greene; 6 Texts of Enslavement: Fon and Yoruba Vocabularies from Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Brazil - Olabiyi Yai; 7 Ethnic and Religious Plurality among Yoruba Immigrants in Trinidad in the Nineteenth Century - Maureen Warner-Lewis; 8 Portraits of African Royalty in Brazil - Alberto da Costa e Silva; 9 Slavery, Marriage and Kinship in Rural Rio de Janeiro, 1790-1830 - Manolo Garcia Florentino and Jose Roberto Goes; 10 Female Enslavement in the Caribbean and Gender Ideologies - Hilary McD. Beckles; 11 Those Who Remained Behind: Women Slave in Nineteenth-century Yorubaland - Francine Shields; 12 'She Voluntarily Hath Come': A Gambian Woman Trader in Colonial Georgia in the Eighteenth Century - Lillian Ashcraft-Eason.
