No more, no more : slavery and cultural resistance in Havana and New Orleans / Daniel E. Walker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Daniel E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.

Slavery.

Slavery--Cuba--Havana--History.

Enslaved persons--Louisiana--New Orleans--Social conditions.

Enslaved persons.

Enslaved persons--Cuba--Havana--Social conditions.

Social control--Louisiana--New Orleans--History.

Social control.

Social control--Cuba--Havana--History.

History.

Social conditions.

New Orleans (La.)--Race relations.

New Orleans (La.).

Havana (Cuba)--Race relations.

Havana (Cuba).

New Orleans (La.)--Social conditions.

Havana (Cuba)--Social conditions.

Cuba--Havana.

Louisiana--New Orleans.

Physical Description:

xiv, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2004]

Summary:

However urban slave societies might have differed from their rural counterparts, they still relied on a concerted assault on the psychological, social, and cultural identity of their African-descended inhabitants to maintain power and control. This ambitious book looks at how people of African descent in two such societies - Havana and New Orleans in the nineteenth century - created and maintained their own forms of cultural resistance to the slave regime's assault and, in the process, put forth autonomous views of self and the social landscape.

Contents:

El Día de Reyes and Congo Square : links to Africa and the Americas

Defining space : social control and public space

Regulating domesticity : the fight for the family

Imagining the African/imagining blackness

Negotiating racial hierarchies : the threat of unity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-185) and index.

ISBN:

0816643261

081664327X

OCLC:

54822830