Review of Peter J. Wilson's Crab Antics: The Social Anthropology of English-Speaking Negro Societies of the Caribbean (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1973)
Kesteloot,Lilyan (Author) and Ellen Conroy Kennedy (Translator)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1974
Published:
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Translation of Les écrivains noirs de langue française.
Originally presented as the author's thesis, Brussels, 1961., 401 p, According to Kesteloot, the three fathers of négritude were Léon Damas (French Guiana), Léopold Senghor (Senegal) and Aimé Césaire (Martinique), who met in Paris in the 1930s and started the movement. Senghor defined negritude as: “the cultural patrimony, the values, and above all the spirit of Negro African civilization.”
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
36 p., The campaign referred to in title was against Yanga and the Government of new Spain. The reason was the abuse against blacks who arrived on the shores of Veracruz in the middle of the 16th century. Yanga or Nyanga was an African leader of a maroon colony of fugitive slaves in the highlands near Veracruz, Mexico during the early period of Spanish colonial rule.