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The Yoruba diaspora in the Atlantic world / edited by Toyin Falola and Matt D. Childs.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Falola, Toyin.
Childs, Matt D., 1970-
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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