Africans in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Africans in America write by Charles Johnson. This book was released on 1999. Africans in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Chronicles the lives of Africans as slaves in America through the eve of the Civil War.
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas
Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas write by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall. This book was released on 2009-11-05. Slavery and African Ethnicities in the Americas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Enslaved peoples were brought to the Americas from many places in Africa, but a large majority came from relatively few ethnic groups. Drawing on a wide range of materials in four languages as well as on her lifetime study of slave groups in the New World, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall explores the persistence of African ethnic identities among the enslaved over four hundred years of the Atlantic slave trade. Hall traces the linguistic, economic, and cultural ties shared by large numbers of enslaved Africans, showing that despite the fragmentation of the diaspora many ethnic groups retained enough cohesion to communicate and to transmit elements of their shared culture. Hall concludes that recognition of the survival and persistence of African ethnic identities can fundamentally reshape how people think about the emergence of identities among enslaved Africans and their descendants in the Americas, about the ways shared identity gave rise to resistance movements, and about the elements of common African ethnic traditions that influenced regional creole cultures throughout the Americas.
American Africans in Ghana
American Africans in Ghana - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook American Africans in Ghana write by Kevin K. Gaines. This book was released on 2012-12-30. American Africans in Ghana available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1957 Ghana became one of the first sub-Saharan African nations to gain independence from colonial rule. Over the next decade, hundreds of African Americans--including Martin Luther King Jr., George Padmore, Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Richard Wright, Pauli Murray, and Muhammad Ali--visited or settled in Ghana. Kevin K. Gaines explains what attracted these Americans to Ghana and how their new community was shaped by the convergence of the Cold War, the rise of the U.S. civil rights movement, and the decolonization of Africa. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana's president, posed a direct challenge to U.S. hegemony by promoting a vision of African liberation, continental unity, and West Indian federation. Although the number of African American expatriates in Ghana was small, in espousing a transnational American citizenship defined by solidarities with African peoples, these activists along with their allies in the United States waged a fundamental, if largely forgotten, struggle over the meaning and content of the cornerstone of American citizenship--the right to vote--conferred on African Americans by civil rights reform legislation.
African Americans and Africa
African Americans and Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Americans and Africa write by Nemata Amelia Ibitayo Blyden. This book was released on 2019-05-28. African Americans and Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An introduction to the complex relationship between African Americans and the African continent What is an “African American” and how does this identity relate to the African continent? Rising immigration levels, globalization, and the United States’ first African American president have all sparked new dialogue around the question. This book provides an introduction to the relationship between African Americans and Africa from the era of slavery to the present, mapping several overlapping diasporas. The diversity of African American identities through relationships with region, ethnicity, slavery, and immigration are all examined to investigate questions fundamental to the study of African American history and culture.
Africans to Spanish America
Africans to Spanish America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Africans to Spanish America write by Sherwin K. Bryant. This book was released on 2012-02-15. Africans to Spanish America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Africans to Spanish America expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires. While a majority of the research on the colonial Diaspora focuses on the Caribbean and Brazil, analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes opens up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secular and ecclesiastical institutions as well as articulations of multiple African identities. Editors Sherwin K. Bryant, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, and Ben Vinson III arrange the volume around three themes: identity construction in the Americas; the struggle by enslaved and free people to present themselves as civilized, Christian, and resistant to slavery; and issues of cultural exclusion and inclusion. Across these broad themes, contributors offer probing and detailed studies of the place and roles of people of African descent in the complex realities of colonial Spanish America. Contributors are Joan C. Bristol, Nancy E. van Deusen, Leo J. Garofalo, Herbert S. Klein, Charles Beatty-Medina, Karen Y. Morrison, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, Frank "Trey" Proctor III, and Michele Reid-Vazquez.
