| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 149 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction / D.A. Dunkley -- 1. Resistance and the evaporation of masters' authority : two Brazilian cases / Karl Monsma -- 2. Rastafari : race and spirituality / D.A. Dunkley -- 3. Birth and death of a Creole nation / Raymond Ramcharitar -- 4. Black man's cry in the Babylon system : a comparative analysis of Fela Kuti and Bob Marley / Stephanie Shonekan -- 5. On the wings : muralism as feminist political praxis by Afro-Puerto Rican women / Bethzabeth Colon-Pizzini -- 6. A geração tombamento : Black empowerment through aesthetics in Salvador de Bahia / Joshua Reason -- 7. English language hegemony and STEM education in the Caribbean / Wilton Lodge -- 8. "No scheme more monstrous could have been invented" : slave election ceremonies and the New York Slave Conspiracy of 1741 / Lawrence Celani -- 9. Anna Julia Cooper's quintessential resistance in the early Pan-Africanist voice of women / April Langley -- 10. Unlikely agents of change : desegregation at the University of Missouri / Mary Beth Brown -- 11. Rewriting the Bible : the Jesus figure in Black Atlantic women's literature / Aurelia Mouzet -- 12. Big chief : the Black Indian tradition of New Orleans / Sascha (Alexandra) Just -- Black nationalism and the presidency of Donald Trump / Stephen C.W. Graves -- Conclusion / Stephanie Shonekan |
| Summary |
All across the US in the last few years, there has been a resurgence of Black protest against structural racism and other forms of racial injustice. Black Resistance in the Americas draws attention to this renewed energy and how this theme of resistance intersects with other communities of Black people around the world. This edited collection examines in depth stories of resistance against slavery, narratives of resistance in African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-Latin American Literature, resistance in politics, education, religion, music, dance, and film, exploring a range of new perspectives from established and emerging researchers on Black communities. The essays in this pivotal book discuss some of the mechanisms that Black communities have used to resist bondage, domination, disempowerment, inequality, and injustices resulting from their encounters with the West, from colonization to forced migration |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
D.A. Dunkley is Assistant Professor in the Department of Black Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia. Stephanie Shonekan is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Black Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia |
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Print version record |
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Black people -- Political activity -- America
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Black people -- America -- Intellectual life
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Black people -- America -- Social life and customs
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Black people -- America -- Social conditions
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Racism -- America
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African-American.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
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Black people -- Political activity
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Black people -- Social conditions
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Black people -- Social life and customs
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Race relations
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Racism
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America -- Race relations
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America
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Dunkley, Daive A., 1973- editor.
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Shonekan, Stephanie, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780429427510 |
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0429427514 |
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9780429764219 |
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0429764219 |
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9780429764202 |
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0429764200 |
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9780429764196 |
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0429764197 |
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