Black Atlantic worlds : landscape histories of the African diaspora / Oscar de la Torre, editor.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

De la Torre, Oscar (Historian), editor.

Conference Name:

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (47th : 2023 : Washington, D.C.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African diaspora--Congresses.

African diaspora.

Africans--Atlantic Ocean Region--History--Congresses.

Africans.

Black people--Atlantic Ocean Region--History--Congresses.

Black people.

Human ecology--Atlantic Ocean Region--Congresses.

Human ecology.

Cultural landscapes--Atlantic Ocean Region--Congresses.

Cultural landscapes.

Black people--Atlantic Ocean Region--History.

Genre:

proceedings (reports)

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvi, 308 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 28 cm

illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, [2026]

Summary:

"Landscapes are key to the Black Atlantic. The history of how Africans and their descendants populated and transformed nations, regions, and ecosystems has always been attentive to the multiple meanings embedded in the landscapes of the Atlantic rim. More recently, the study of archival silences, Black geographies, fugitivity, and the connections between environment and identity has refreshed traditional conversations and formulated new perspectives of analysis, a shift that acts as the focus of Black Atlantic Worlds: Landscape Histories of the African Diaspora. Based on the Dumbarton Oaks 2023 symposium on Black Atlantic landscapes, this volume features the work of scholars from distinct disciplines addressing West African Atlantization processes on both land and water, struggles over voice and agency in landscape representation, Black geographies as a conduit for religion and spirituality, and the unexpected and connective diasporic meanings of urban landscapes. By engaging and building upon the ever-evolving paradigms of Afro-diasporic studies, these contributions illuminate the hidden figures, strategies, and ideas that constitute the Black Atlantic"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword - Preface : The environment surrounding this Black Atlantic Book

Introduction: Un-silencing and disentangling Black Atlantic landscapes / Oscar de la Torre

I. Atlantic and counter-Atlantic Africa

Behind the coast : fighting not to enter the Atlantic world as a commodity / Jacques Aymeric-Nsangou

Currents of belonging : slavery, maritime flight, and the making of free communities in the waterscapes of colonial Sierra Leone / Myles Ali

Homo sacer and Atlantic slavery : landscape histories of sacrifice and commodification in a sacred grove near Fort Amsterdam, Ghana / Andrew Apter

II. Silencing black landscapes. Anxious cartographies : mapping Quilombos in colonial Brazil / Matthew Francis Rarey

Victuals from the plantationocene : provision grounds and Black personhood in an eighteenth-century Martinican painting / C. C. McKee

Translating the idealized plantation : Caribbean landscapes and enslaved Africans in a Brazilian agricultural guide / Neil Safier

III. Sacred and spiritual placemaking. "The land will not expose their designs" : Black Atlantic geopolitics, maroon landscapes, and responses to epidemic disease in the sixteenth-century Ayiti-Kiskeya (Hispaniola) / Elise A. Mitchell

Vissungos and the Black diamond miners of northern Minas Gerais : verse and landscape from Africa to Brazil / Victoria R. Broadus

Temples and trees : the ceibas of Havana as icons of Black spirituality, cultural politics, and visual experience in the Atlantic world, 1828-1928 / Joseph R. Hartman

IV. Landscapes of the urban Black Atlantic

Land, freedom, and power in New Netherland / Amanda Faulkner

Toward a Black Atlantic urbanism / Emily Holloway.

Notes:

"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XLVII."--Page preceding title page.

"Volume based on papers presented at the symposium "Environmental Histories of the Black Atlantic World: Landscape Histories of the African Diaspora," organized by Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., and held on May 12-13, 2023."--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780884025283

0884025284

OCLC:

1521388004