Slavery Blackness And Hybridity

Author : Rosabelle Boswell
Publisher : Kegan Paul International
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0710311796

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Slavery, Blackness And Hybridity by Rosabelle Boswell Pdf

For the past two decades Mauritians have focused on their remarkably successful economy and tended to ignore the poverty and marginalisation of a significant minority in their country. This book examines this situation among the Creoles, descendents of African and Malagasy slaves who live in Mauritius, an Indian Ocean island that has experienced three centuries of subsequent colonization by the Dutch, the French and the English. The author investigates le Malaise Crole, a socio-cultural phenomenon said to affect the progress and well being of Creoles in the society. The discussion of le Malaise Crole unravels a tragedy and cultural paradox for Mauritians have all essentially become social and biological hybrids but continue to perceive and treat their 'roots'as a source of power, purity and identity. In the quest for power and social order, dominant groups in the society promote a 'roots'discourse that has contributed to a rigid ethnic hierarchy. As slave descendants, Creoles experience problems identifying and confirming their 'roots.'Dominant and negative perceptions of slavery, blackness and hybridity also result in their of experience racial discrimination and economic marginalisation. To culturally survive in the new millennium Creoles are compelled to foster a roots discourse of their own for without 'roots'they are treated as a people who lack identity and power. Today Creoles are commonly stereotyped as lazy, spendthrift and hedonistic. The author's empirical research in five locations challenges these stereotypes and indicates how socio-economic and spatial factors diversify Creole identity. She advances several interpretations of le malaise Crole and investigates whatkind of phenomenon this is, arguing that although whiteness is highly valued in Mauritius, global values focusing on hybridity and power in blackness are beginning to influence Creole identity and to empower this ethnic group.

Author : Remi Joseph-Salisbury
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787565333

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Black Mixed-Race Men by Remi Joseph-Salisbury Pdf

This book offers a corrective to pathological and stereotypical representations of mixedness generally, and Black mixed-race men specifically. By introducing the concept of ‘post-racial’ resilience the book shows that Black mixed-race men are active and agentic as they resist the fragmentation and erasure of multiplicitous identities.

Author : George Hutchinson,John Kevin Young
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780472118632

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Publishing Blackness by George Hutchinson,John Kevin Young Pdf

The first of its kind, this volume sets in dialogue African Americanist and textual scholarship, exploring a wide range of African American textual history and work

Author : Kenneth J. Bindas,Fabrizio Ricciardelli
Publisher : Viella Libreria Editrice
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-13T00:00:00+02:00
Category : History
ISBN : 9788867289349

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Regional History as Cultural Identity by Kenneth J. Bindas,Fabrizio Ricciardelli Pdf

This book brings together scholars to reflect upon the significance and meaning of local and regional history, focusing on how these histories impact people’s cultural identity through traditions, culture, language, and politics. Scholars from all over the world analyze the process of communal identity construction ‒ the feeling of belonging to one state or nation regardless of one’s legal citizenship status ‒ by focusing on case studies from North America, South America, Africa, and Europe. By analyzing the cultural and social aspects of community formation through language, religion, symbols, politics, race, and blood ties, these papers reveal that national identity, rather than being an inborn trait, is more often a result of the presence of common elements in the daily lives of individuals.

Author : Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0231510314

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The British Slave Trade and Public Memory by Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace Pdf

How does a contemporary society restore to its public memory a momentous event like its own participation in transatlantic slavery? What are the stakes of once more restoring the slave trade to public memory? What can be learned from this history? Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace explores these questions in her study of depictions and remembrances of British involvement in the slave trade. Skillfully incorporating a range of material, Wallace discusses and analyzes how museum exhibits, novels, television shows, movies, and a play created and produced in Britain from 1990 to 2000 grappled with the subject of slavery. Topics discussed include a walking tour in the former slave-trading port of Bristol; novels by Caryl Phillips and Barry Unsworth; a television adaptation of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park; and a revival of Aphra Behn's Oroonoko for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In each case, Wallace reveals how these works and performances illuminate and obscure the history of the slave trade and its legacy. While Wallace focuses on Britain, her work also speaks to questions of how the United States and other nations remember inglorious chapters from their past.

Author : Paul Gilroy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 1839766123

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The Black Atlantic by Paul Gilroy Pdf

Author : Paul Gilroy
Publisher : Verso
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0860916758

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The Black Atlantic by Paul Gilroy Pdf

An account of the location of black intellectuals in the modern world following the end of racial slavery. The lives and writings of key African Americans such as Martin Delany, W.E.B. Dubois, Frederick Douglas and Richard Wright are examined in the light of their experiences in Europe and Africa.

Author : Aretha Phiri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781040104248

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Reframing the Black Atlantic by Aretha Phiri Pdf

Commemorating the thirtieth anniversary of Paul Gilroy’s seminal text, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, this book offers fresh interpretations of established black Atlantic scholarship from the perspective of those typically elided from its ideological purview and existential narrative. The application of queer and/or feminist lenses in each essay attempts to mediate these elisions and to advance potentially transformative, democratising readings of the black Atlantic from both complex and complicating African and diasporic viewpoints. With the aim of realigning black Atlantic scholarship in this way, the edited volume proposes an interventionist approach that is concerned with problematizing ethnic/ cultural universalisms and challenging geographic and gendered hierarchizations. Underlining the importance of aesthetic and creative cultural archives, Reframing the Black Atlantic’s focus on transnational African diasporic literature and other intersecting popular cultural forms probes the (imaginative) limits and possibilities of the black Atlantic, conventionally conceived. To this end, this book intends not just to complicate and enhance established views of black Africa; inviting the reader to locate and perceive black life lived otherwise, it points towards more inclusive and expansive global understandings and visions of blackness. This volume will be of particular use to researchers and students in the fields of race/gender, diaspora/transnational, literary and cultural studies. The chapters of this book were originally published in Cultural Studies.

Author : Yogita Goyal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139486712

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Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature by Yogita Goyal Pdf

Romance, Diaspora, and Black Atlantic Literature offers a rich, interdisciplinary treatment of modern black literature and cultural history, showing how debates over Africa in the works of major black writers generated productive models for imagining political agency. Yogita Goyal analyzes the tensions between romance and realism in the literature of the African diaspora, examining a remarkably diverse group of twentieth-century authors, including W. E. B. Du Bois, Chinua Achebe, Richard Wright, Ama Ata Aidoo and Caryl Phillips. Shifting the center of black diaspora studies by considering Africa as constitutive of black modernity rather than its forgotten past, Goyal argues that it is through the figure of romance that the possibility of diaspora is imagined across time and space. Drawing on literature, political history and postcolonial theory, this significant addition to the cross-cultural study of literatures will be of interest to scholars of African American studies, African studies and American literary studies.

Author : Eric Martone
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443831222

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The Black Musketeer by Eric Martone Pdf

Alexandre Dumas, author of The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo, and The Man in the Iron Mask, is the most famous French writer of the nineteenth century. In 2002, his remains were transferred to the Panthéon, a mausoleum reserved for the greatest French citizens, amidst much national hype during his bicentennial. Contemporary France, struggling with the legacies of colonialism and growing diversity, has transformed Dumas, grandson of a slave from St. Domingue (now Haiti), into a symbol of the colonies and the larger francophone world in an attempt to integrate its immigrants and migrants from its former Caribbean, African, and Asian colonies to improve race relations and to promote French globality. Such a reconception of Dumas has made him a major figure in debates on French identity and colonial history. Ten tears after Dumas’s interment in the Panthéon, the time is ripe to re-evaluate Dumas within this context of being a representative of la Francophonie. The French re-evaluation of Dumas, therefore, invites a reassessment of his life, works, legacy, and previous scholarship. This interdisciplinary collection is the first major work to take up this task. It is unique for being the first scholarly work to bring Dumas into the center of debates about French identity and France’s relations with its former colonies. For the purposes of this collection, to analyze Dumas in a “francophone” context means to explore Dumas as a symbol of a “French” culture shaped by, and inclusive of, its (former) colonies and current overseas departments. The seven entries in this collection, which focus on providing new ways of interpreting The Three Musketeers, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Georges, are categorized into two broad groups. The first group focuses on Dumas’s relationship with the francophone colonial world during his lifetime, which was characterized by the slave trade, and provides a postcolonial re-examination of his work, which was impacted profoundly by his status as an individual of black colonial descent in metropolitan France. The second part of this collection, which is centered broadly around Dumas’s francophone legacy, examines the way he has been remembered in the larger French-speaking (postcolonial) world, which includes metropolitan France, in the past century to explore questions about French identity in an emerging global age.

Author : Parisa Vaziri
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781452970202

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Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery by Parisa Vaziri Pdf

Rethinking the history of African enslavement in the western Indian Ocean through the lens of Iranian cinema From the East African and Red Sea coasts to the Persian Gulf ports of Bushihr, Kish, and Hurmuz, sailing and caravan networks supplied Iran and the surrounding regions with African slave labor from antiquity to the nineteenth century. This book reveals how Iranian cinema preserves the legacy of this vast and yet long-overlooked history that has come to be known as Indian Ocean slavery. How does a focus on blackness complicate traditional understandings of history and culture? Parisa Vaziri addresses this question by looking at residues of the Indian Ocean slave trade in Iranian films from the second half of the twentieth century. Revealing the politicized clash between commercial cinema (fīlmfārsī) and alternative filmmaking (the Iranian New Wave), she pays particular attention to the healing ritual zār, which is both an African slave descendent practice and a constitutive element of Iranian culture, as well as to cinematic sīyāh bāzī (Persian black play). Moving beyond other studies on Indian Ocean and trans-Saharan slavery, Vaziri highlights the crystallization of a singular mode of historicity within these cinematic examples—one of “absence” that reflects the relative dearth of archival information on the facts surrounding Indian Ocean slavery. Bringing together cinema studies, Middle East studies, Black studies, and postcolonial theory, Racial Blackness and Indian Ocean Slavery explores African enslavement in the Indian Ocean through the revelatory and little-known history of Iranian cinema. It shows that Iranian film reveals a resistance to facticity representative of the history of African enslavement in the Indian Ocean and preserves the legacy of African slavery’s longue durée in ways that resist its overpowering erasure in the popular and historical imagination. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly with images accompanied by short alt text and/or extended descriptions.

Author : Tudor Parfitt
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190083359

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Hybrid Hate by Tudor Parfitt Pdf

Hybrid Hate is the first book to study the conflation of antisemitism and anti-Black racism. As objects of racism, Jews and Blacks have been linked together for centuries as peoples apart from the general run of humanity. In this book, Tudor Parfitt investigates the development of antisemitism, anti-Black racism, and race theory in the West from the Renaissance to the Second World War. Parfitt explains how Jews were often perceived as Black in medieval Europe, and the conflation of Jews and Blacks continued throughout the period of the Enlightenment. With the discovery of a community of Black Jews in Loango in West Africa in 1777, and later of Black Jews in India, the Middle East, and other parts of Africa, the notion of multiracial Jews was born. Over the following centuries, the figure of the hybrid Black Jew was drawn into the maelstrom of evolving theories about race hierarchies and taxonomies. Parfitt analyses how Jews and Blacks were increasingly conflated in a racist discourse from the mid-nineteenth century to the period of the Third Reich, as the two fundamental prejudices of the West were combined. Hybrid Hate offers a new interpretation of the rise of antisemitism and anti-Black racism in Europe, and casts light on contemporary racist discourses in the United States and Europe.

Author : Philip D. Morgan,Sean Hawkins
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191555510

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Black Experience and the Empire by Philip D. Morgan,Sean Hawkins Pdf

This work explores the lives of people of sub-Saharan Africa and their descendants, how they were shaped by empire, and how they in turn influenced the empire in everything from material goods to cultural style. The black experience varied greatly across space and over time. Accordingly, thirteen substantive essays and a scene-setting introduction range from West Africa in the sixteenth century, through the history of the slave trade and slavery down to the 1830s, to nineteenth- and twentieth-century participation of blacks in the empire as workers, soldiers, members of colonial elites, intellectuals, athletes, and musicians. No people were more uprooted and dislocated; or travelled more within the empire; or created more of a trans-imperial culture. In the crucible of the British empire, blacks invented cultural mixes that were precursors to our modern selves - hybrid, fluid, ambiguous, and constantly in motion. SERIES DESCRIPTION The purpose of the five volumes of the Oxford History of the British Empire was to provide a comprehensive study of the Empire from its beginning to end, the meaning of British imperialism for the ruled as well as the rulers, and the significance of the British Empire as a theme in world history. The volumes in the Companion Series carry forward this purpose by exploring themes that were not possible to cover adequately in the main series, and to provide fresh interpretations of significant topics

Author : Shirley Anne Tate
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351955256

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Black Skins, Black Masks by Shirley Anne Tate Pdf

Black Skin, Black Masks: Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity offers a timely exploration of Black identity and its negotiation. The book draws on empirical work recording everyday conversations between Black women: friends, peers and family members. These conversations are discussed in the light of the work of Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Gerd Baumann, Claire Alexander and others on questions of hybridity, identity, otherness and the development of ’new ethnicities’. Tate aims to address what she sees as significant omissions in contemporary Black Cultural Studies. She argues that theorists have rarely looked at the process of identity construction in terms of lived-experience; and that they have tended to concentrate on the demise of the essential Black subject, paying little attention to gender. The book points to a continuation of a ’politics of the skin’ in Black identities. As such it argues against Bhabha's claim that essence is not central to hybrid identities. The conversations recorded in the book reveal the ways in which women negotiate the category of Blackness, in what Tate calls a 'hybridity-of- the-everyday'. The book introduces a new interpretative vocabulary to look at the ways in which hybridity is orchestrated and fashioned, showing it to be performative, dialogical and dependent on essentialism.

Author : Samira Kawash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804727754

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Dislocating the Color Line by Samira Kawash Pdf

Inquiries into the meaning and force of race in American culture have largely focused on questions of identity and difference—What does it mean to have a racial identity? What constitutes racial difference? Such questions assume the basic principle of racial division, which todays seems to be becoming an increasingly bitter and seemingly irreparable chasm between black and white. This book confronts this contemporary problem by shifting the focus of analysis from understanding differences to analyzing division. It provides a historical context for the recent resurgence of racial division by tracing the path of the color line as it appears in the narrative writings of African-Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In readings of slave narratives, "passing novels," and the writings of Charles Chesnutt and Zora Neale Hurston, the author asks: What is the work of division? How does division work? The history of the color line in the United States is coeval with that of the nation. The author suggests that throughout this history, the color line has not functioned simply to name biological or cultural difference, but more important, it has served as a principle of division, classification, and order. In this way, the color line marks the inseparability of knowledge and power in a racially demarcated society. The author shows how, from the time of slavery to today, the color line has figured as the locus of such central tenets of American political life as citizenship, subjectivity, community, law, freedom, and justice. This book seeks not only to understand, but also to bring critical pressure on the interpretations, practices, and assumptions that correspond to and buttress representations of racial difference. The work of dislocating the color line lies in uncovering the uncertainty, the incoherency, and the discontinuity that the common sense of the color line masks, while at the same time elucidating the pressures that transform the contingent relations of the color line into common sense.