The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic 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 Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World write by Toyin Falola. This book was released on 2005-05-02. The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative anthology focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this anthology will allow students to trace the experiences of one cultural group throughout the cycle of the slave experience in the Americas. The 19 essays, employing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, provide a detailed study of how the Yoruba were integrated into the Atlantic world through the slave trade and slavery, the transformations of Yoruba identities and culture, and the strategies for resistance employed by the Yoruba in the New World. The contributors are Augustine H. Agwuele, Christine Ayorinde, Matt D. Childs, Gibril R. Cole, David Eltis, Toyin Falola, C. Magbaily Fyle, Rosalyn Howard, Robin Law, Babatunde Lawal, Russell Lohse, Paul E. Lovejoy, Beatriz G. Mamigonian, Robin Moore, Ann O'Hear, Luis Nicolau Parés, Michele Reid, João José Reis, Kevin Roberts, and Mariza de Carvalho Soares. Blacks in the Diaspora -- Claude A. Clegg III, editor Darlene Clark Hine, David Barry Gaspar, and John McCluskey, founding editors
Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World
Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic 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 Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World write by Solimar Otero. This book was released on 2010. Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World explores how Yoruba and Afro-Cuban communities moved across the Atlantic between the Americas and Africa in successive waves in the nineteenth century. In Havana, Yoruba slaves from Lagos banded together to buy their freedom and sail home to Nigeria. Once in Lagos, this Cuban repatriate community became known as the Aguda. This community built their own neighborhood that celebrated their Afrolatino heritage. For these Yoruba and Afro-Cuban diasporic populations, nostalgic constructions of family and community play the role of narrating and locating a longed-for home. By providing a link between the workings of nostalgia and the construction of home, this volume re-theorizes cultural imaginaries as a source for diasporic community reinvention. Through ethnographic fieldwork and research in folkloristics, Otero reveals that the Aguda identify strongly with their Afro-Cuban roots in contemporary times. Their fluid identity moves from Yoruba to Cuban, and back again, in a manner that illustrates the truly cyclical nature of transnational Atlantic community affiliation. Solimar Otero is Associate Professor of English and a folklorist at Louisiana State University. Her research centers on gender, sexuality, Afro-Caribbean spirituality, and Yoruba traditional religion in folklore, literature and ethnography. Dr. Otero is the recipient of a Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund grant (2013), a fellowship at the Harvard Divinity School's Women's Studies in Religion Program (2009 to 2010), and a Fulbright award (2001).
Igbo in the Atlantic World
Igbo in the Atlantic 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 Igbo in the Atlantic World write by Toyin Falola. This book was released on 2016-09-26. Igbo in the Atlantic World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Igbo are one of the most populous ethnic groups in Nigeria and are perhaps best known and celebrated in the work of Chinua Achebe. In this landmark collection on Igbo society and arts, Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku have compiled a detailed and innovative examination of the Igbo experience in Africa and in the diaspora. Focusing on institutions and cultural practices, the volume covers the enslavement, middle passage, and American experience of the Igbo as well as their return to Africa and aspects of Igbo language, society, and cultural arts. By employing a variety of disciplinary perspectives, this volume presents a comprehensive view of how the Igbo were integrated into the Atlantic world through the slave trade and slavery, the transformations of Igbo identities and culture, and the strategies for resistance employed by the Igbo in the New World. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this collection includes 21 essays by prominent scholars throughout the world.
Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora
Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African 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 Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora write by Akinwumi Ogundiran. This book was released on 2007-11-06. Archaeology of Atlantic Africa and the African Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through interdisciplinary approaches to material culture, the dynamics of a comparative transatlantic archaeology is developed.
Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World
Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic 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 Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World write by Solimar Otero. This book was released on 2010. Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Afro-Cuban Diasporas in the Atlantic World explores how Yoruba and Afro-Cuban communities moved across the Atlantic between the Americas and Africa in successive waves in the nineteenth century. In Havana, Yoruba slaves from Lagos banded together to buy their freedom and sail home to Nigeria. Once in Lagos, this Cuban repatriate community became known as the Aguda. This community built their own neighborhood that celebrated their Afrolatino heritage. For these Yoruba and Afro-Cuban diasporic populations, nostalgic constructions of family and community play the role of narrating and locating a longed-for home. By providing a link between the workings of nostalgia and the construction of home, this volume re-theorizes cultural imaginaries as a source for diasporic community reinvention. Through ethnographic fieldwork and research in folkloristics, Otero reveals that the Aguda identify strongly with their Afro-Cuban roots in contemporary times. Their fluid identity moves from Yoruba to Cuban, and back again, in a manner that illustrates the truly cyclical nature of transnational Atlantic community affiliation. Solimar Otero is assistant professor of English and folklore at Louisiana State University and is research associate and visiting professor at the Women's Studies in Religion Program at the Harvard Divinity School from 2009 - 2010.
