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Persephone Braham is associate professor of Spanish and Latin American studies at the University of Delaware.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. THE MIDDLE PASSAGE AND THE AFRICAN AMERICAS PROJECT
Persephone Braham
1. Keith Morrison: Middle Passage
Julie L. McGee
II. SLAVERY, MIGRATION, AND RACIAL IDENTITY
2. The African Diaspora in the Americas: The Caribbean Dimension
Franklin W. Knight
3. Afro-Antillean Presence in the Latin American Melting Pot
Carla Guerrón Montero
4. Puerto Ricans in the Harlem Riot of 1935
Lorrin Thomas
5. Rethinking “Racial Democracy”: Perspectives from Black Thinkers in Twentieth-Century Brazil
Paulina L. Alberto
III. AFRICA IN THE ARTS: MIGRATION, IMPROVISATION, EXCHANGE
6. Pearl Fishing in the Caribbean: Early Images of Slavery and Forced Migration in the Americas
Mónica Domínguez-Torres
7. Improvisation in the Danzón and its Ties to Early New Orleans Jazz
Robin Moore
8. Afrochic: Africa in the Modernist Imagination
Camara Dia Holloway
9. True Blood: Colorblindness, Blanqueamiento, and Vampire Ethnicity in Castro’s Cuba
Phillip Penix-Tadsen
10. Introspection and Projection in Cuban Art
Colette Gaiter
11. Hearing Reggaeton’s African-American Address
Wayne Marshall
12. Black-British and Other African Diaspora Artists Visualizing Slavery
Eddie Chambers
IV. BLACK AMERICAN STUDIES IN THE GLOBAL HUMANITIES
13. Race and Representation in the Digital Humanities: An Inter-American Case Study
Ifeoma Nwankwo
14. Black American Studies at the University of Delaware: Education Across the Lines
Carol Henderson
Contributors
This collection explores the influence of African bodies and elements on cultures of the Americas. The authors argue that the history of forced migration and enslavement of Africans is constitutive of the identities, stories, and cultural expressions of North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. The 14 essays highlight the historical dispersal of African peoples (and their cultures) across the Americas, explore the presence and impact of the African diasporic experience in creative spheres such as music and fashion, and examine the study of the African Americas in the academy. The breadth of topics provides a rich exploration of the various ways that African cultures and the Middle Passage experience are infused in the lived realities and expressions of the Americas. The chapters are relatively short and written in very straightforward language, which makes the text accessible to readers outside academia. . . .Summing Up: Recommended. Undergraduate collections.
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