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The Yoruba diaspora in the Atlantic world / edited by Toyin Falola and Matt D. Childs.
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- Book
- Series:
- Blacks in the diaspora
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yoruba (African people)--America--History.
- Yoruba (African people).
- Slavery--America--History.
- Slavery.
- Return migration.
- History.
- America.
- Return migration--Africa, West.
- African diaspora.
- West Africa.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 455 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2004]
- Summary:
- This innovative anthology focuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba.Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this anthology will allowstudents to trace the experiences of one cultural group throughout the cycle of theslave experience in the Americas. The 19 essays, employing a variety of disciplinaryperspectives, provide a detailed study of how the Yoruba were integrated into theAtlantic world through the slave trade and slavery, the transformations of Yorubaidentities and culture, and the strategies for resistance employed by the Yoruba inthe New World. The contributors are Augustine H. Agwuele, Christine Ayorinde, Matt D. Childs, Gibril R. Cole, David Eltis, Toyin Falola, C.Magbaily Fyle, Rosalyn Howard, Robin Law, Babatunde Lawal, Russell Lohse, Paul E.Lovejoy, Beatriz G. Mamigonian, Robin Moore, Ann O'Hear, Luis Nicolau Par s, Michele Reid, Joao Jos Reis, Kevin Roberts, and Mariza de CarvalhoSoares. Blacks in the Diaspora -- Claude A. Clegg III, editorDarlene Clark Hine, David Barry Gaspar, and John McCluskey, foundingeditors
- Contents:
- The Yoruba diaspora in the Atlantic world: methodology and research / Matt D. Childs and Toyin Falola
- The diaspora of Yoruba speakers, 1650-1865: dimensions and implications / David Eltis
- The Yoruba factor in the trans-Atlantic slave trade / Paul E. Lovejoy
- The enslavement of Yoruba / Ann O'Hear
- Nagô and Mina: the Yoruba diaspora in Brazil / João José Reis and Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian
- The Yoruba in Cuba: origins, identities, and transformations / Michele Reid
- Africans in a colony of creoles: the Yoruba in colonial Costa Rica / Russell Lohse
- Yoruba in the British Caribbean: a comparative perspective on Trinidad and the Bahamas / Rosalyn Howard
- The influential Yoruba past in Haiti / Kevin Roberts
- The "nagôization" process in Bahian candomblé / Luis Nicolau Parés
- Santería in Cuba: tradition and transformation / Christine Ayorinde
- From Gbe to Yoruba: ethnic change and the Mina nation in Rio de Janeiro / Mariza de Carvalho Soares
- Yoruba family, gender, and kinship roles in new world slavery / Kevin Roberts
- Revolution and religion: Yoruba sacred music in socialist Cuba / Robin Moore
- Reclaiming the past: Yoruba elements in African American arts / Babatunde Lawal
- "Yorubaisms" in African American "speech" patterns / Augustine H. Agwuele
- Yoruba liberated slaves who returned to West Africa / Robin Law
- The Yoruba diaspora in Sierra Leone's Krio society / C. Magbaily Fyle
- Liberated slaves and Islam in nineteenth-century West Africa / Gibril R. Cole.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-445) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0253344581
- 0253217164
- OCLC:
- 55847386
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