Name: Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power (Blacks in the Diaspora) (en Inglés)
Price: 86620.00 CLP
Availability: InStock
Author: Walter C. Rucker
ISBN: 9780253016942

portada Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power (Blacks in the Diaspora) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Indiana University Press

Autor

Walter C. Rucker

Año

2015

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

342

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780253016942

Categorías

América
Historia de américa

Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power (Blacks in the Diaspora) (en Inglés)

Walter C. Rucker (Autor) · Indiana University Press · Tapa Dura

Libro Nuevo

$ 86.620

$ 144.360

Ahorras: $ 57.740

40% descuento

Envío normal

Origen: Estados Unidos (Costos de importación incluídos en el precio)

Se enviará desde nuestra bodega entre el Jueves 30 de Mayo y el Martes 11 de Junio.

Lo recibirás en cualquier lugar de Chile entre 1 y 3 días hábiles luego del envío.

Reseña del libro "Gold Coast Diasporas: Identity, Culture, and Power (Blacks in the Diaspora) (en Inglés)"

Although they came from distinct polities and peoples who spoke different languages, slaves from the African Gold Coast were collectively identified by Europeans as "Coromantee" or "Mina." Why these ethnic labels were embraced and how they were utilized by enslaved Africans to develop new group identities is the subject of Walter C. Rucker’s absorbing study. Rucker examines the social and political factors that contributed to the creation of New World ethnic identities and assesses the ways displaced Gold Coast Africans used familiar ideas about power as a means of understanding, defining, and resisting oppression. He explains how performing Coromantee and Mina identity involved a common set of concerns and the creation of the ideological weapons necessary to resist the slavocracy. These weapons included obeah powders, charms, and potions; the evolution of "peasant" consciousness and the ennoblement of common people; increasingly aggressive displays of masculinity; and the empowerment of women as leaders, spiritualists, and warriors, all of which marked sharp breaks or reformulations of patterns in their Gold Coast past.