African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Compact disc.; 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in
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Recorded 1949-1987. Program notes by Kenneth Bilby and James McKee, bibliography, and discography (19 p.) included., Includes: Garifuna: Belize -- Indians of the Chocó: Panama/Columbia -- Shipibo: Peru -- Asháninka: Peru -- Aluku: French Guiana -- Wayana: Suriname -- Maroons: Jamaica.; Recorded 1949-1987.; Music from the rainforests of South America & the Caribbean
By reflecting on the intersections of race, nationality, and the body within the specificities of Black Seminole border culture and history, the essay problematizes Anne Anlin Cheng’s notion of racial melancholia, suggesting that self rejection might be a more strategic move than Cheng acknowledges it to be. In the end, the author coins the term dialectical soundings and proposes that the singing of spirituals among the Black Seminoles in fact operates as such, rendering blackness visible in the context of the Mexican border essentialist racial discourse.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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229 p., Contents: Antecedents -- Life in the Back of Beyond -- Shifting Sands -- Personal Autonomy -- Age and Gender -- Kinship -- Households and Extended Families -- Death and the Work of Mourning -- Ritual Organization -- Necessity as Mother of Convention -- Afterword -- Kinship Terminology -- Ritual Expenses.
