Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies - 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 Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies write by Cassander L. Smith. This book was released on 2018-10-03. Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies brings into conversation two fields—Early Modern Studies and Black Studies—that traditionally have had little to say to each other. This disconnect is the product of current scholarly assumptions about a lack of archival evidence that limits what we can say about those of African descent before modernity. This volume posits that the limitations are not in the archives, but in the methods we have constructed for locating and examining those archives. The essays that make up this volume offer new critical approaches to black African agency and the conceptualization of blackness in early modern literary works, historical documents, material and visual cultures, and performance culture. Ultimately, this critical anthology revises current understandings about racial discourse and the cultural contributions of black Africans in early modernity and in the present across the globe.
Staging Habla de Negros
Staging Habla de Negros - 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 Staging Habla de Negros write by Nicholas R. Jones. This book was released on 2019-05-01. Staging Habla de Negros available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in vogue. Focusing on Spanish Golden Age theater and performative poetry from authors such as Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Rueda, and Rodrigo de Reinosa, Jones makes a strong case for revising the belief, long held by literary critics and linguists, that white appropriations and representations of habla de negros language are “racist buffoonery” or stereotype. Instead, Jones shows black characters who laugh, sing, and shout, ultimately combating the violent desire of white supremacy. By placing early modern Iberia in conversation with discourses on African diaspora studies, Jones showcases how black Africans and their descendants who built communities in early modern Spain were rendered legible in performative literary texts. Accessibly written and theoretically sophisticated, Jones’s groundbreaking study elucidates the ways that habla de negros animated black Africans’ agency, empowered their resistance, and highlighted their African cultural retentions. This must-read book on identity building, performance, and race will captivate audiences across disciplines.
Staging Habla de Negros
Staging Habla de Negros - 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 Staging Habla de Negros write by Nicholas R. Jones. This book was released on 2019-04-05. Staging Habla de Negros available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume, Nicholas R. Jones analyzes white appropriations of black African voices in Spanish theater from the 1500s through the 1700s, when the performance of Africanized Castilian, commonly referred to as habla de negros (black speech), was in vogue. Focusing on Spanish Golden Age theater and performative poetry from authors such as Calderón de la Barca, Lope de Rueda, and Rodrigo de Reinosa, Jones makes a strong case for revising the belief, long held by literary critics and linguists, that white appropriations and representations of habla de negros language are “racist buffoonery” or stereotype. Instead, Jones shows black characters who laugh, sing, and shout, ultimately combating the violent desire of white supremacy. By placing early modern Iberia in conversation with discourses on African diaspora studies, Jones showcases how black Africans and their descendants who built communities in early modern Spain were rendered legible in performative literary texts. Accessibly written and theoretically sophisticated, Jones’s groundbreaking study elucidates the ways that habla de negros animated black Africans’ agency, empowered their resistance, and highlighted their African cultural retentions. This must-read book on identity building, performance, and race will captivate audiences across disciplines.
Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism
Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism - 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 Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism write by Erin Kathleen Rowe. This book was released on 2019-12-12. Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the untold story of how black saints - and the slaves who venerated them - transformed the early modern church. It speaks to race, the Atlantic slave trade, and global Christianity, and provides new ways of thinking about blackness, holiness, and cultural authority.
Germany and the Black Diaspora
Germany and the Black Diaspora - 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 Germany and the Black Diaspora write by Mischa Honeck. This book was released on 2013-07-01. Germany and the Black Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The rich history of encounters prior to World War I between people from German-speaking parts of Europe and people of African descent has gone largely unnoticed in the historical literature—not least because Germany became a nation and engaged in colonization much later than other European nations. This volume presents intersections of Black and German history over eight centuries while mapping continuities and ruptures in Germans' perceptions of Blacks. Juxtaposing these intersections demonstrates that negative German perceptions of Blackness proceeded from nineteenth-century racial theories, and that earlier constructions of “race” were far more differentiated. The contributors present a wide range of Black–German encounters, from representations of Black saints in religious medieval art to Black Hessians fighting in the American Revolutionary War, from Cameroonian children being educated in Germany to African American agriculturalists in Germany's protectorate, Togoland. Each chapter probes individual and collective responses to these intercultural points of contact.
