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Author Essien, Kwame, author.

Title Brazilian-African diaspora in Ghana : the Tabom, slavery, dissonance of memory, identity, and locating home / Kwame Essien
Published East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2016]
©2016

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Description 1 online resource (xxxvii, 364 pages)
Series Ruth Simms Hamilton African diaspora series
Ruth Simms Hamilton African diaspora series.
Contents Reverse diaspora: dissonance of memory, voyages of hope and degrees of return -- Historicizing the returnee presence in Gã Mã -- The social history of Gã Mã (Accra), colonialism, and their impact on the Brazilian-African diaspora -- The evolution of land in Gã Mã and Brazilian-African diaspora: paradox of freedom and the birth of conflicts -- Escaping slavery into colonialism and squabbles: how colonial projects and internal disputes threatened Brazilian land/diaspora -- Brazilians together, Brazilians apart: the "family trees" and the process of becoming Gã -- (Re) creating Brazilian slavery in an enabling environment -- Contributions by the Brazilian-Africans and the Tabom -- "Fading" diaspora and memory: how the Brazilian government and the Tabom are preserving Brazil House and crisscrossing the Atlantic in full circle -- Epilogue: telescoping Lula's unfulfilled promise and implications for the Tabom's visit to Brazil
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Freed persons -- Ghana -- History
Immigrants -- Ghana -- History
Africans -- Brazil -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Children of immigrants -- Ghana -- History
HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
Children of immigrants
Colonial influence
Emigration and immigration
Freed persons
Immigrants
SUBJECT Ghana -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Ghana -- Colonial influence
Subject Brazil
Ghana
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781609175047
1609175042