African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Based on a conference which took place in Sandton, Johannesburg from 14-15 July 2008., 346 p., This conference is the first of three conferences on the African diaspora with respect to the returnee phenomenon of 'Back to Africa'. Contents: volume 1. Afro-Brazilian returnees and their communities -- volume 2. The ideology and practice of the African returnee phenomenon from the Caribbean and North-America to Africa.
Verger,Pierre (Author), Neto,Mário Cravo (Author), Metzner,Manfred (Editor), and Thoss,Michael (Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
German
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
Heidelberg: Wunderhorn
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
On the occasion of the exhibition "Black Gods in Exile [Schwarze Götter im Exil] photographs by Pierre Verger and Mario Cravo Neto Fatumbi." Ethnological Museum, Berlin - Dahlem , 2 September to 7 November 2004., 351 p., Traditions in Brazilian Candomblé, Haitian voodoo and Cuban Santeria, the collective memory of the African-American population, are portrayed in the photographs of French ethnologist and photographer Pierre Verger.
164 p., Explores four contemporary novels and a film that rely heavily on photographic and mass-media images to illuminate, articulate, and critique modern-day Black urban existence: Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco (1997), Chris Abani's Graceland (2004), John Edgar Wideman's Fanon , Paulo Lins' Cidade de Deus (1997), and Fernando Meirelles' 2002 film adaptation of Lins' novel City of God . Chapters examine the ways in which photographic and/or mass-media images are used as narrative tropes or devices for representing the material conditions of an emerging slum existence. The author argues that each text reveals a preoccupation with the rise of global urbanism and visual culture as new types of discursive spaces--new kinds of "texts"-- that shape not only the real life of black people, but also the literary landscape of Black writing across the globe.
Nellis,Eric Guest (Author) and Canadian Historical Association (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2013
Published:
Projected Pub Date: 1307
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
About the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based slavery's impact on the economic, social, and cultural development of the New World. While the book explores the idea of the African slave as a tool in the formation of new American societies, it also acknowledges the culture, humanity, and importance of the slave as a person and highlights the role of women in slave societies.
