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Author Walker, Daniel E.

Title No more, no more : slavery and cultural resistance in Havana and New Orleans / Daniel E. Walker
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 188 pages) : illustrations
Contents El Día de Reyes and Congo Square : links to Africa and the Americas -- Defining space : social control and public space -- Regulating domesticity : the fight for the family -- Imagining the African/imagining blackness -- Negotiating racial hierarchies : the threat of unity
Summary This ambitious book looks at how people of African descent in two societies-Havana and New Orleans in the nineteenth century-created their own forms of cultural resistance to the slave regime's assault. No More, No More elucidates the economic, social, cultural, and demographic operations at work in two cities and the efforts at cultural resistance embodied in public performances
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-185) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Slavery -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History
Slavery -- Cuba -- Havana -- History
Enslaved persons -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- Social conditions
Enslaved persons -- Cuba -- Havana -- Social conditions
Social control -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History
Social control -- Cuba -- Havana -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
Race relations
Slavery
Enslaved persons -- Social conditions
Social control
Social conditions
SUBJECT New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations
Havana (Cuba) -- Race relations
New Orleans (La.) -- Social conditions
Havana (Cuba) -- Social conditions
Subject Cuba -- Havana
Louisiana -- New Orleans
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2004006605
ISBN 9780816695829
0816695822