Obeah, Race and Racism - 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 Obeah, Race and Racism write by Eugenia O'Neal. This book was released on 2020-01-24. Obeah, Race and Racism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Obeah, Race and Racism, Eugenia O'Neal vividly discusses the tradition of African magic and witchcraft, traces its voyage across the Atlantic and its subsequent evolution on the plantations of the New World, and provides a detailed map of how English writers, poets and dramatists interpreted it for English audiences. The triangular trade in guns and baubles, enslaved Africans and gold, sugar and cotton was mirrored by a similar intellectual trade borne in the reports, accounts and stories that fed the perceptions and prejudices of everyone involved in the slave trade and no subject was more fascinating and disconcerting to Europeans than the religious beliefs of the people they had enslaved. Indeed, African magic made its own triangular voyage; starting from Africa, Obeah crossed the Atlantic to the Caribbean, then journeyed back across the ocean, in the form of traveller's narratives and plantation reports, to Great Britain where it was incorporated into the plots of scores of books and stories which went on to shape and form the world view of explorers and colonial officials in Britain's far-flung empire. O'Neal examines what British writers knew or thought they knew about Obeah and discusses how their perceptions of black people were shaped by their perceptions of Obeah. Translated or interpreted by racist writers as a devil-worshipping religion, Obeah came to symbolize the brutality, savagery and superstition in which blacks were thought to be immured by their very race. For many writers, black belief in Obeah proved black inferiority and justified both slavery and white colonial domination. The English reading public became generally convinced that Obeah was evil and that blacks were, at worst, devil worshippers or, at best, extremely stupid and credulous. And because books and stories on Obeah continued to promulgate either of the two prevailing perspectives, and sometimes both together until at least the 1950s, theories of black inferiority continue to hold sway in Great Britain today.
The Deepest Dye
The Deepest Dye - 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 The Deepest Dye write by Aisha Khan. This book was released on 2021-07-13. The Deepest Dye available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How colonial categories of race and religion together created identities and hierarchies that today are vehicles for multicultural nationalism and social critique in the Caribbean and its diasporas. When the British Empire abolished slavery, Caribbean sugar plantation owners faced a labor shortage. To solve the problem, they imported indentured ÒcoolieÓ laborers, Hindus and a minority Muslim population from the Indian subcontinent. Indentureship continued from 1838 until its official end in 1917. The Deepest Dye begins on post-emancipation plantations in the West IndiesÑwhere Europeans, Indians, and Africans intermingled for work and worshipÑand ranges to present-day England, North America, and Trinidad, where colonial-era legacies endure in identities and hierarchies that still shape the post-independence Caribbean and its contemporary diasporas. Aisha Khan focuses on the contested religious practices of obeah and Hosay, which are racialized as ÒAfricanÓ and ÒIndianÓ despite the diversity of their participants. Obeah, a catch-all Caribbean term for sub-Saharan healing and divination traditions, was associated in colonial society with magic, slave insurrection, and fraud. This led to anti-obeah laws, some of which still remain in place. Hosay developed in the West Indies from Indian commemorations of the Islamic mourning ritual of Muharram. Although it received certain legal protections, HosayÕs mass gatherings, processions, and mock battles provoked fears of economic disruption and labor unrest that lead to criminalization by colonial powers. The proper observance of Hosay was debated among some historical Muslim communities and continues to be debated now. In a nuanced study of these two practices, Aisha Khan sheds light on power dynamics through religious and racial identities formed in the context of colonialism in the Atlantic world, and shows how today these identities reiterate inequalities as well as reinforce demands for justice and recognition.
Obeah and Other Powers
Obeah and Other Powers - 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 Obeah and Other Powers write by Diana Paton. This book was released on 2012-04-13. Obeah and Other Powers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection looks at Caribbean religious history from the late 18th century to the present including obeah, vodou, santeria, candomble, and brujeria. The contributors examine how these religions have been affected by many forces including colonialism, law, race, gender, class, state power, media represenation, and the academy.
The Construction and Representation of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and the World
The Construction and Representation of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and the World - 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 The Construction and Representation of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and the World write by Mervyn C. Alleyne. This book was released on 2002. The Construction and Representation of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Cultural Politics of Obeah
The Cultural Politics of Obeah - 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 The Cultural Politics of Obeah write by Diana Paton. This book was released on 2015-08-10. The Cultural Politics of Obeah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the importance of debates about obeah, and state suppression of it, for Caribbean struggles about freedom and citizenship.
