Batrell,Ricardo (Author) and Sanders,Mark A. (Translator)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
240 p., In 1896, an illiterate, fifteen-year-old Afro-Cuban field hand joined the rebel army fighting for Cuba's independence. Though poor and uneducated, Ricardo Batrell believed in the promise of Cuba Libre, the vision of a democratic and egalitarian nation that inspired the Cuban War of Independence. After the war ended in 1898, Batrell taught himself to read and write and published a memoir of his wartime experiences,
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
247 p., A study of the interchange between Cuba and Africa of Yoruban people and culture during the 19th century, with special emphasis on the Aguda community.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
307 p, Contents: On diaspora and the Akan in the Americas -- Quest for the river, creation of the path: Akan cultural development to the sixteenth century -- History and meaning in Akan societies, 1500-1800 -- The most unruly: the Akan in Danish and Dutch America -- The antelope (adowa) and the elephant (esono): the Akan in the British Caribbean -- All of the Coromantee country: the Akan diaspora in North America -- Diaspora discourses : Akan spiritual praxis and the claims of cultural idenitity
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
409 p., Contents: 1. pt. La comunidad afroporteña -- 2. pt. Disciplinamiento y mundo popular --
3. pt. Una comunidad en conflicto (tirando de las hilachas del folleto de Rolón).
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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241 p, In Blackness in the White Nation, George Reid Andrews offers a comprehensive history of Afro-Uruguayans from the colonial period to the present. Showing how social and political mobilization is intertwined with candombe, he traces the development of Afro-Uruguayan racial discourse and argues that candombe's evolution as a central part of the nation's culture has not fundamentally helped the cause of racial equality. Incorporating lively descriptions of his own experiences as a member of a candombe drumming and performance group, Andrews consistently connects the struggles of Afro-Uruguayans to the broader issues of race, culture, gender, and politics throughout Latin America and the African diaspora generally.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
221 p., Chronicling the period from the abolition of slavery in 1888 to the start of Brazil's military regime in 1964, Romo uncovers how the state's nonwhite majority moved from being a source of embarrassment to being a critical component of Bahia's identity.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
282 p, In the last 50 years, the United Kingdom has witnessed a growing proportion of mixed African-Caribbean and white British families. With rich new primary evidence of 'mixed-race' in the capital city, The Creolisation of London Kinship thoughtfully explores this population. Individuals are followed through changing social and historical contexts, seeking to understand in how far many of these transformations may be interpreted as creolisation.
