Black Liberation in the Americas (Paperback)

The recognition that Africans in the Americas have also been subjects of their destiny rather than merely passive objects of European oppression represents one of the major shifts in twentieth-century mainstream historiography. Yet even in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, slave narratives and abolitionist tracts offered testimony to various ways in which Africans struggled against slavery, from outright revolt to day-to-day resistance. In the first decades of the twentieth century, African American historians like Carter G. Woodson and W.E.B. Du Bois started to articulate a vision of African American history that emphasized survival and resistance rather than victimization and oppression. This volume seeks to address these and other issues in black liberation from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, focusing on such issues as slave revolts, day-to-day resistance, abolitionist movements, maroon societies, the historiography of resistance, the literature of resistance, black liberation movements in the twentieth century, and black liberation and post colonial theory. The chapters span the disciplines of history, literature, anthropology, folklore, film, music, architecture, and art, drawing on the black experience of liberation in the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

General

Imprint:	Lit Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	March 2003
First published:	August 2001
Editors:	Fritz Gysin • Christopher Mulvey
Dimensions:	222 x 159mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	200
ISBN-13:	978-3-8258-5137-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General Promotions
LSN:	3-8258-5137-0
Barcode:	9783825851378

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