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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.
- New Orleans (La.)--Race relations.
- New Orleans (La.).
- Havana (Cuba)--Race relations.
- Havana (Cuba).
- New Orleans (La.)--Social conditions.
- Havana (Cuba)--Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (204 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This ambitious book looks at how people of African descent in two societies-Havana and New Orleans in the nineteenth century-created their own forms of cultural resistance to the slave regime's assault. No More, No More elucidates the economic, social, cultural, and demographic operations at work in two cities and the efforts at cultural resistance embodied in public performances.
- Contents:
- El Dia 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:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-185) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816695829
- 0816695822
- OCLC:
- 560187212
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