Working the 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 Working the Diaspora write by Frederick Knight. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Working the Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. While this forced migration stripped slaves of their liberty, it failed to destroy many of their cultural practices, which came with Africans to the New World. In Working the Diaspora, Frederick Knight examines work cultures on both sides of the Atlantic, from West and West Central Africa to British North America and the Caribbean. Knight demonstrates that the knowledge that Africans carried across the Atlantic shaped Anglo-American agricultural development and made particularly important contributions to cotton, indigo, tobacco, and staple food cultivation. The book also compellingly argues that the work experience of slaves shaped their views of the natural world. Broad in scope, clearly written, and at the center of current scholarly debates, Working the Diaspora challenges readers to alter their conceptual frameworks about Africans by looking at them as workers who, through the course of the Atlantic slave trade and plantation labor, shaped the development of the Americas in significant ways.
Working the Spirit
Working the Spirit - 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 Working the Spirit write by Joseph M. Murphy. This book was released on 1995-01-30. Working the Spirit available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An appreciative and user-friendly book on religion in the African diaspora. Murphy's skillfully drawn portraits offer an inviting introduction to the religious worlds of Vodou, Candomble, Santeria, Revival Zion, and the Black Church" – David W. Wills, Amherst College
Undercurrents of Power
Undercurrents of Power - 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 Undercurrents of Power write by Kevin Dawson. This book was released on 2021-05-07. Undercurrents of Power available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the Americas. Undercurrents of Power not only chronicles the experiences of enslaved maritime workers, but also traverses the waters of the Atlantic repeatedly to trace and untangle cultural and social traditions.
The African Diaspora
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 The African Diaspora write by Patrick Manning. This book was released on 2010-03-05. The African Diaspora available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Patrick Manning follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In joining these stories, he shows how the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean fueled dynamic interactions among black communities and cultures and how these patterns resembled those of a number of connected diasporas concurrently taking shaping across the globe. Manning begins in 1400 and traces the connections that enabled Africans to mutually identify and hold together as a global community. He tracks discourses on race, changes in economic circumstance, the evolving character of family life, and the growth of popular culture. He underscores the profound influence that the African diaspora had on world history and demonstrates the inextricable link between black migration and the rise of modernity. Inclusive and far-reaching, The African Diaspora proves that the advent of modernity cannot be fully understood without taking the African peoples and the African continent into account.
Downwardly Global
Downwardly Global - 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 Downwardly Global write by Lalaie Ameeriar. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Downwardly Global available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Downwardly Global Lalaie Ameeriar examines the transnational labor migration of Pakistani women to Toronto. Despite being trained professionals in fields including engineering, law, medicine, and education, they experience high levels of unemployment and poverty. Rather than addressing this downward mobility as the result of bureaucratic failures, in practice their unemployment is treated as a problem of culture and racialized bodily difference. In Toronto, a city that prides itself on multicultural inclusion, women are subjected to two distinct cultural contexts revealing that integration in Canada represents not the erasure of all differences, but the celebration of some differences and the eradication of others. Downwardly Global juxtaposes the experiences of these women in state-funded unemployment workshops, where they are instructed not to smell like Indian food or wear ethnic clothing, with their experiences at cultural festivals in which they are encouraged to promote these same differences. This form of multiculturalism, Ameeriar reveals, privileges whiteness while using race, gender, and cultural difference as a scapegoat for the failures of Canadian neoliberal policies.
