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Fight for freedom : Black resistance and identity / edited by Moussa Traoré and Tony Talburt.

Van Pelt Library DT21 .F54 2017
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Traoré, Moussa (English professor), editor.
Talburt, Tony, editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Anti-imperialist movements--Africa, West.
Anti-imperialist movements.
Government, Resistance to--Africa, West.
Government, Resistance to.
Government, Resistance to--Jamaica.
Government, Resistance to--Great Britain.
Black people--Race identity--Africa, West.
Black people.
Black people--Race identity--Jamaica.
Black people--Race identity--Great Britain.
Black people--Race identity.
Africa, West--Politics and government.
Africa, West.
West Africa.
Politics and government.
Black nationalism.
Great Britain.
Jamaica.
Physical Description:
viii, 261 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
Legon-Accra, Ghana : Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2017.
Summary:
Collection of essays examining how Black people in Africa, Britain and the Caribbean organized campaigns of resistance against European slavery, colonialism and racial discrimination in attempts to assert their own freedom and identity.
Contents:
Black resistance and identity : overview of a global struggle / Tony Talburt
Our fathers shot arrows : songs of resistance to the slave trade in northern Ghana / Emmanuel Saboro
In the name of God resist! : Prophet Jemisimiham Jehu Appiah and African religious nationalism in twentieth century Gold Coast / De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway
Local Black resistance against colonial integration of Ewedome (British Trust Territory) 1951-1956 / Wilson Yayoh
Black radical tradition and resistance in Jamaica / Orville W. Beckford and Christopher A.D. Charles
Maryse Condé's Heremakhonon and the fight for Caribbean female francophone identity / Moussa Traoré
Pan Africanism, anti-Eurocentrism and slave resistance in Raphaël Confiant's Négre Marron / Moussa Traoré
Skin bleaching, oppression and Black resistance / Christopher A.D. Charles
Realigning and reframing Pan African resistance / Tony Talburt
Fight for freedom : a summary / Moussa Traoré and Tony Talburt.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9789988647117
9988647115
9988647670
9789988647674
OCLC:
1005685981

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