Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas

What are the perceived differences among African Americans, West Indians, and Afro Latin Americans-including What are the hierarchies implicit in those perceptions, and when and how did these develop? For Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo the turning point came in the wake of the Haitian Revolution of 1804. The uprising was significant because it not only brought into being the first Black republic in the Americas but also encouraged new visions of the interrelatedness of peoples of the African Diaspor...