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Overview
Like snapshots of everyday life in the past, the compelling biographies in this book document the making of the Black Atlantic world since the sixteenth century from the point of view of those who were part of it. Centering on the diaspora caused by the forced migration of Africans to Europe and across the Atlantic to the Americas, the chapters explore the slave trade, enslavement, resistance, adaptation, cultural transformations, and the quest for citizenship rights. The variety of experiences, constraints and choices depicted in the book and their changes across time and space defy the idea of a unified 'black experience.' At the same time, it is clear that in the twentieth century, 'black' identity unified people of African descent who, along with other 'minority' groups, struggled against colonialism and racism and presented alternatives to a version of modernity that excluded and alienated them. Drawing on a rich array of little-known documents, the contributors reconstruct the lives and times of some well-known characters along with ordinary people who rarely left written records and would otherwise have remained anonymous and unknown.
Editorial Reviews
July 2010 Choice
This wonderful addition to the growing scholarship attempts, quite successfully, to add a human face to the black Atlantic. A topical bibliography and a filmography provide instructors and students alike a guide for further research. Highly recommended.Product Details
Meet the Author
Beatriz G. Mamigonian is professor of history at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil. Karen Racine is associate professor of Latin American history at the University of Guelph, Canada.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction: People in the Making of the Black Atlantic Chapter 2 Alonso de Illescas (1530s–1580s): African, Ladino, and Maroon Leader in Colonial Ecuador Chapter 3 Gregoria López (1680s): A Mexican Mulata Defends Her Honor Chapter 4 Philip Quaque (1741–1816): African Anglican Missionary on the Gold Coast Chapter 5 Harry Washington (1760s–1790s): A Founding Father's Slave Chapter 6 Rufino José Maria (1820s–1850s): A Muslim in the Nineteenth-Century Brazilian Slave Trade Circuit Chapter 7 Buenaventura Lucumí (1820s–1872): African Slave, Head of a Household, and Lottery Winner in Cuba Chapter 8 Blaise Diagne (1872–1934): Senegal's Deputy to the French National Assembly Chapter 9 Phyllis Ann Edmeade (1920s): Caribbean Migrant Worker Deported from the United States Chapter 10 C. L. R. James (1901–1989): The Black Jacobin Chapter 11 Robert Robinson (1930s): Celebrity Worker in the USSR Chapter 12 Vicente Ferreira Pastinha (1889–1981): The "Angolan" Tradition of Capoeira Chapter 13 Malcolm X (1925–1965): A Pan-African Revolutionary Chapter 14 Romare Bearden (1911-1988): Artist, Intellectual, Activist Chapter 15 Suggested Readings by Topic Chapter 16 Selected Filmography on the Black Atlantic