Goldschmidt,Henry (Author) and McAlister,Elizabeth A. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
New York: Oxford University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
338 p, Includes Elizabeth McAlister's "The; Jew in the Haitian imagination: a popular history of anti-Judaism and proto-racism"; John Burdick's "Catholic Afro mass and the dance of eurocentrism in Brazil"; and Kate Ramsey's "Legislating 'civilization' in postrevolutionary Haiti"
370 p., Examines three general geographical areas in which people who originated in Africa were dispersed to the West during the Transatlantic Trade in Captured Africans. In Africa there was a process of inculcating cultural values while harnessing skills in an authentic education system called retreat schools. These schools were the original African lodges or secret societies that supported the communal system since they made people indigenous. Everyone in a village had an obligation to become initiated in order to learn the secrets of their society. Those individuals who were not indoctrinated were ostracized because they did not experience transformation and pledged an oath of loyalty. The purpose of this study is to investigate the elaborate infrastructure that was historically an integral part of early African institutional character, and aspects of its presentation among New World Africans.
The concept of the ghetto, referring to specifically urban experiences of sociospatial marginalization, has played a prominent role in black popular culture. This article explores the role of the ghetto as a discursive space of immobility and traces its global journey as a mobile imaginary.
Colburn,David R. (Author) and Landers,Jane (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1995
Published:
Gainesville: University Press of Florida
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
392 p, Africans participated in all the Spanish explorations and settlements in Florida, as they did throughout the Spanish Americas. In Florida they helped establish St. Augustine and the free black community of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose. Africans and African Americans fought in the many conflicts that wracked Florida, including the three Seminole Wars and the Civil War. Despite the oppressions of slavery and segregation, black Floridians struggled to establish their own communities, combat racism and economic deprivation, and negotiate the terms of their labor. Against overwhelming odds, they helped develop communities like Jacksonville, Tampa, and Miami, and they served as the critical labor force for the state's citrus, agricultural, and timber industries. For centuries, however, their heritage has been ignored. These twelve essays examine the rich and substantial African American heritage of Florida, documenting African American contributions to the state's history from the colonial era to the late twentieth century. (www.upf.com);
Glen reviews "The History of Early Methodism in Antigua: A Critique of Sylvia R. Frey and Betty Wood's Come Shouting to Zion: African American Protestantism in the American South and British Carribean to 1830 (University of North Carolina Press, 1998).;
Drescher,Seymour (Editor) and McGlynn,Frank (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
1992
Published:
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
"Outcome of an international conference ... held at the University of Pittsburgh ... 25-27 August 1988", 333 p., This study considers the aftermath of slavery, focusing on Caribbean societies and the southern United States and addressing such questions as: what was the nature and impact of slave emancipation? And did the change in legal status conceal underlying continuities in plantation societies?
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
173 p, Focuses on two motifs in Marshall's fiction: the "fractired psyche" a consequence of slavery and dispersion, and the journey towards spiritual wholeness whose end is healing within African based community. (JSTOR);
