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363 p, Contents: Africans in the Iberian Peninsular, the slave trade, and overview of Afro-Iberian linguistic contacts; Early Afro-Portuguese texts; Early Afro-Hispanic texts; Africans in colonial Spanish America; Afro-Hispanic texts from Latin America; Survey of major African language families; Phonetics/phonology of Afro-Hispanic language; Grammatical features of Afro-Hispanic language; The Spanish-creole debate
Discussed is the 'passion for Cuba' held by Dr. Robert Stephens, professor of music at the University of Connecticut-Storrs and interim director of the school's Institute for African American Studies
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420 p, The Garifuna are presented as an African-Amerindian culture which has successfully fought and won several wars with Europeans (French and British). Chronicled are their struggles for survival after European attempts of extermination and exile; and their 20th century thrust toward cultural awareness as an African people as they redefined (renamed) themselves and remained committed to the retention of their African and Amerindian traditions (Africanisms). Moreover, possible African anteriors are suggested in the rituals of ancestor rites of the Yoruba, Igbo and Dahomey cultures of West Africa; and as they are also seen in some Afro-Caribbean
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310 p., "The idea baianidade is very much a model, a source of inspiration, the translation of concrete reality. All cultural identities are just that: ideas. ...They unite people, facilitate dialogue, summarize important, beautiful values. As can also serve to alienate us from other people, to justify to ourselves, our faults and mistakes." --The Author, "Agnes Mariano e a "Invenção da Baianidade" (www.passieweb.com).
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385 p., The study is not a work about religion but rather of black African identity. Leaning on three black African societies (Yoruba of Benin and Nigeria, Agni-Akan and Senufo Ivory Coast), the author investigates the notion of person. Faced with the question of death, passing moment of earthly existence of man to his condition.
Crahan,Margaret E. (Author) and Knight,Franklin W. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1979
Published:
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Location:
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159 p, Contents: The African migration and the origins of an Afro-American society and culture / Franklin W. Knight and Margaret E. Crahan; The cultural links / Harry Hoetnik;
African and Creole slave family patterns in Trinidad / B.W. Higman; Myalism and the African religious tradition in Jamaica / Monica Schuler; Jamaican Jonkonnu and related Caribbean festivals / Judith Bettelheim; The African impact on language and literature in the English-speaking Caribbean / Maureen Warner Lewis; The African presence in the poetry of Nicolás Guillén / Lorna V. Williams.
