Extending the Diaspora: New Histories of Black People

by Dawne Y. Curry, Eric D. Duke, Marshanda A. Smith, Darlene Clark Hine, Iris Berger

Overview

This groundbreaking collection addresses both new and familiar topics with fresh perspectives to produce original and thought-provoking scholarship on the diasporic histories of black peoples. Through a variety of methodologies and theoretical constructs, the contributors plumb a wide range of localities to engage many important subjects, including slavery and emancipation, transnational and diasporic experiences, social and political activism, and political and cultural identity. In doing so, they offer insightful and thought provoking studies, highlight new areas of inquiry in the African diaspora, and in many cases transcend geographical and national boundaries. The probing and meticulously woven narratives of this collection combine to show the vibrant histories of peoples of African descent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780252076527
Publisher:	University of Illinois Press
Publication date:	07/21/2009
Series:	New Black Studies Series
Edition description:	1st Edition
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Dawne Y. Curry is an assistant professor of history and ethnic studies at the University of Nebraska. Eric D. Duke is an assistant professor of Africana studies at the University of South Florida. Marshanda A. Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in comparative black history at Michigan State University.

Table of Contents

Foreword Darlene Clark Hine vii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xiii

Section 1 Pursuing Freedom

1 How Free is "Free"? The Limits of Manumission for Enslaved Africans in Eighteenth-Century British Caribbean Sugar Society John Campbell 3

2 A Harsh and Gloomy Fate: Liberated Africans in the Service of the Brazilian State, 1830s-1860s Beatriz G. Mamigonian 24

3 A New Biography of the African Diaspora: The Life and Death of Marie-Joseph Angélique, Black Portuguese Slave Woman in New France, 1725-1734 Afua Cooper 46

Section 2 Diaspora Interactions

4 Envisioning an Antislavery War: African American Historical Constructions of the Haitian Revolution in the 1850s Stephen G. Hall 77

5 Comparable or Connected? Afro-Diasporic Resistance in the United States and Brazil Micol Seigel 100

6 An African American "Mother of the Nation:" Madie Hall Xuma in South Africa, 1940-1963 Iris Berger 125

Section 3 The Black Presence in the Pacific

7 The African Diaspora at the End of the World Cassandra Pybus 157

8 The Presence of (Black) Liberation in Okinawan Freedom: Transnational Moments, 1968-1972 Yuichiro Onishi 178

Section 4 Race and Nation

9 Becoming British by Beating "Black" America: National Identity and Race in the Molineaux-Cribb Prize Fights of 1810 and 1811 Joel T. Helfrich 205

10 "Colored Germans There Will Never Be": Colonialism and Citizenship in Modern Germany Fatima El-Tayeb 225

11 Race, Color, and the Marxist Left in Pre-Duvalier Haiti Matthew J. Smith 245

12 "Considered Coloured or Honorary White": African Americans in South Africa Dawne Y. Curry 270

Contributors 291

Index 297

Editorial Reviews

"A fascinating collection and a must read for teachers of African American Diaspora, literature, culture, and/or history."—Multicultural Review

"Extending the Diaspora offers new voices, new insights, and new fields of inquiry to diaspora studies. The depth and originality of the research is breathtaking, and the accompanying analyses are equally stunning."—Michelle M. Wright, author of Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora

"These essays effectively define (or redefine) the black diaspora and Atlantic world studies. In this volume, we are witnessing the exciting birth of the next generation of diaspora studies scholarship."—Thomas C. Holt, author of The Problem of Race in the Twenty-first Century

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