Slavery, memory, citizenship / Paul E. Lovejoy and Vanessa S. Oliveira, eds.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lovejoy, Paul E., editor, author.

Oliveira, Vanessa S., 1980- editor, author.

Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

Series:

Harriet Tubman series (Trenton, N.J.)

The Harriet Tubman series on the African diaspora

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Slavery.

African diaspora.

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

Racism.

Race relations.

Collective memory.

Slavery--Caribbean Area--History.

History.

Caribbean Area.

Slavery--Africa--History.

Africa.

Slavery--North America--History.

North America.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 442 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Trenton : Africa World Press, 2016.

Contents:

Introduction: Slavery, Memory, Citizenship / Paul E. Lovejoy

Part I. Slavery: chapter 1. Slave life in the Canadian Maritime Colonies / Harvey Amani Whitfield; chapter 2. Afro-descendant slaves in the legal system of colonial Chile, 1770-1823 / Carolina Gonzalez; chapter 3. Discipline and masculinities in slave communities of the antebellum South / David Doddington; chapter 4. Trauma in diaspora: slavocentric visions of African American identity in Liberia and the antebellum United States / Ben Schiller; chapter 5. 'Over the way' on the border of Canada before the Civil War / Dann J. Broyld; chapter 6. Slavery and the forgotten women slave owners of Luanda (1846-1876) / Vanessa S. Oliveira

Part II. Memory: chapter 7. Identifying Juan Correa, the painter, and Vicente Guerrero, independence leader, in Mexican history / Maria Elisa Velazquez; chapter 8. Dawn of tomorrow, 'a noble tradition to be maintained' in the historical memory of Canada / Melissa N. Shaw; chapter 9. Confronting 'liberal lies' about Black Canada: George Elliott Clarke and the children of Frantz Fanon / Daniel McNeil; chapter 10. Devoir d'histoire: confronting the history of slavery in public space in France / Sonja Dinter; chapter 11. Conflicting narratives of identity and the past in the memory of slavery in Guadeloupe / Ary Gordien; chapter 12. Walls of memory and political expression in Port-au-Prince / Lenique Gaspard

Part III. Citizenship: chapter 13. Integration and assimilation? Afro-Mexicans in the birth of the Mexican nation, 1810-1850 / María Camila Díaz Casas; chapter 14. Re-appropriating the repressive past through memories of slavery in the Mandara Mountains / Chetima Melchisedek and Gaimatakwan Kr Dujok Alexandre; chapter 15. 'Forgetting' slavery, resilience and the end of national deafness in France / Myriam Cottias; chapter 16. Art, citizenship and reparations for slavery: practices and perspectives from two engaged artists in Rio de Janeiro / Francine Saillant; chapter 17. Compensation and the legacy of trans-Atlantic slavery in international law / Blaise Tchikaya

Appendix. Summer institute 2011: slavery, memory, citizenship.

Notes:

"...contributions were initially presented at an event which was designated a Summer Institute/Institut d'Etat entitled "Slavery, Memory, Citizenshiip," held at the Harriet Tubman Institute, York University, on August 21-27, 2011."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781569024713

1569024715

9781569024720

1569024723

OCLC:

945549883

Publisher Number:

99967497392