Extending the Diaspora
New Histories of Black People
Published on 1. August 2009
Book
Hardback
312 pages
978-0-252-03459-6 (ISBN)
Description
This groundbreaking collection addresses both new and familiar topics with fresh perspectives to produce original and thought-provoking scholarship on the diasporic histories of black peoples. Through a variety of methodologies and theoretical constructs, the contributors plumb a wide range of localities to engage many important subjects, including slavery and emancipation, transnational and diasporic experiences, social and political activism, and political and cultural identity. In doing so, they offer insightful and thought provoking studies, highlight new areas of inquiry in the African diaspora, and in many cases transcend geographical and national boundaries. The probing and meticulously woven narratives of this collection combine to show the vibrant histories of peoples of African descent.
Reviews / Votes
"A fascinating collection and a must read for teachers of African American Diaspora, literature, culture, and/or history."--Multicultural Review "Extending the Diaspora offers new voices, new insights, and new fields of inquiry to diaspora studies. The depth and originality of the research is breathtaking, and the accompanying analyses are equally stunning."--Michelle M. Wright, author of Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora "These essays effectively define (or redefine) the black diaspora and Atlantic world studies. In this volume, we are witnessing the exciting birth of the next generation of diaspora studies scholarship."--Thomas C. Holt, author of The Problem of Race in the Twenty-first CenturyMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Baltimore
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-252-03459-6 (9780252034596)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Dawne Y. Curry is an assistant professor of history and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska. Eric D. Duke is an assistant professor of Africana studies at the University of South Florida. Marshanda A. Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in comparative black history at Michigan State University.
Content
Foreword - Darlene Clark Hine; Acknowledgements - Dawne Y. Curry, Eric D. Duke, and Marshanda Smith; Introduction - Dawne Y. Curry, Eric D. Duke, and Marshanda Smith; Section One: Pursuing Freedom; 1. How Free is "Free"? The Limits of Manumission for Enslaved Africans in 18th century British Caribbean Sugar Society - John Campbell; 2. A Harsh and "Gloomy Fate": Liberated Africans in the Service of the Brazilian State, 1830s - 1860s - Beatriz G. Mamigonian; 3. A New Biography of the African Diaspora: The Life and Death of Marie-Joseph Angelique, Black Portuguese Slave Woman in New France, 1725-1734 - Afua Cooper; Section Two: Diaspora Interactions; 4. Envisioning an Antislavery War: African American Historical Constructions of the Haitian Revolution in the 1850's - Stephen Gilroy Hall; 5. Comparable or Connected? Afro-Diasporic Resistance in the U.S. and Brazil - Micol Seigel; 6. An African American "Mother of the Nation": Madie Hall Xuma in South Africa, 1940 - 1963 - Iris Berger; Section Three: The Black Presence in the Pacific; 7. The African Diaspora at the End of the World - Cassandra Pybus; 8. The Presence of Black Liberation in Okinawan Freedom: Transnational Moments, 1968-1972 - Yuichiro Onishi; Section Four: Race and Nation; 9. Becoming British by Beating "Black" America: National Identity & Race in the Molineaux-Cribb Prize Fights of 1810 and 1811 - Joel T. Helfrich; 10. "Colored Germans there will never be": Colonialism and Citizenship in Modern Germany - Fatima El-Tayeb; 11. Race, Color, and the Marxist Left in Pre-Duvalier Haiti - Matthew J. Smith; 12. "Considered Coloured or Honorary White": African Americans in South Africa - Dawne Y. Curry; Notes on Contributors