Bøger i Blacks in the Diaspora serien

People of African descent in the New World (the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean) share a common set of experiences: domination and resistance, slavery and emancipation, the pursuit of freedom, and struggle against racism. This volume embraces the challenge to probe differences embedded in Black ethnicities.

Examination of the development of racial attitudes and color prejudice.

An anthology of historical studies focused on themes and issues central to the construction of Black masculinities. It highlights an important dimension of the complex array of Black male experiences as workers, artists, warriors, and leaders in both slave and free communities in the centuries and decades prior to the end of slavery in the US.

Cuba's social and cultural complexity interpreted through the history and expressive power of rumba.

Provides an account of the history and status of African cinema. Drawing on history, political science, economics, and cultural studies, this book discusses such issues as film production and distribution, and film aesthetics from the colonial period to the modern day.

Grossman, Earl Lewis, Shirley Ann Moore, and Joe William Trotter, Jr.

Dealing with the archaeology of African life on both sides of the Atlantic, this title highlights the importance of archaeology in completing the historical records of the Atlantic world's Africans. It presents a picture of Africans' experiences during the era of the Atlantic slave trade.

Analyzing the impact of black abolitionist iconography on early black literature and the formation of black identity, this book argues that the visual offered an alternative to literacy for current and former slaves, whose works mobilize forms of illustration that subvert dominant representations of slavery by both apologists and abolitionists.

Definitive work on one of the most consequential events in the history of Atlantic slavery

Examines how Haitian diaspora writers, artists, and musicians address black masculinity through the Haitian Creole concept of gwo negs, or "big men". This work confronts the gendered, sexualized, and racialized boundaries of America's diaspora communities and openly resist "domestic" imperialism that targets immigrants, minorities, and gays.

Examines the work and actions of seven local initiatives in Baltimore, Winston-Salem, Cleveland, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles. This book reveals these local organizations as committed to programs of community activism that focused on problems of social, political, and economic justice.

During the Harlem Renaissance African Americans used written and visual texts to shape ideas about themselves and to redefine African American identity. The author argues that these collaborative volumes show how participants engaged in the processes of representation and identity formation in sophisticated and largely successful ways.

Identity, race, and social networks in the African diaspora

Provides an overview of the Atlantic world, since the 15th century, by exploring the major themes that define the study of this region. This work discusses topics such as: Contact with Europeans in Africa and the Americas, the slave trade, gender and race in the early Atlantic world, independence movements in Africa, and Caribbean nationalism.

Rewrites the history of the civil rights movement, recognizing the contributions of Black women.