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1 online resource |
Series |
Blacks in the diaspora |
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Blacks in the diaspora.
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Contents |
Part One: Social Life and Death -- Gold Coast Backgrounds -- Making the Gold Coast Diaspora -- Slavery, Ethnogenesis, and Social Resurrection -- Part Two: Social Resurrection and Empowerment -- State, Governance, and War -- Obeah, Oaths, and Ancestral Spirits -- Women, Regeneration, and Power -- Postscript |
Summary |
"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"--Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
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Akan (African people) -- America -- Social conditions
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Enslaved persons -- America -- Social conditions
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Black people -- America -- Ethnic identity -- History
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Africans -- America -- Ethnic identity -- History
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Power (Social sciences) -- America -- History
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African diaspora -- History
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Black people -- Race identity -- America -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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African diaspora
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Akan (African people) -- Social conditions
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Black people -- Ethnic identity
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Emigration and immigration
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Ethnic relations
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Power (Social sciences)
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Enslaved persons -- Social conditions
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SUBJECT |
America -- Ethnic relations -- History
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Ghana -- Emigration and immigration -- History
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Côte d'Ivoire -- Emigration and immigration -- History
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Togo -- Emigration and immigration -- History
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America
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Côte d'Ivoire
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Ghana
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Togo
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780253017017 |
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0253017017 |
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