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1 online resource (302 pages) |
| Series |
Rethinking the Americas |
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Rethinking the Americas.
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| Contents |
The Making of a Race (Man) -- The View from Above: Placido Through the Eyes of the Cuban Colonial Government and White Abolitionists -- The View from Next Door: Placido Through Black Abolitionists' Eyes -- Part Two: Both (Race) and (Nation)? -- On Being Black and Cuban: Race, Nation, and Romanticism in the Poetry of Placido -- "We Intend to Stay Here": The International Shadows in Frederick Douglass's Representations of African American Community -- "More a Haitian Than an American": Frederick Douglass and the Black World Beyond the United States -- Part Three: Negating Nation, Rejecting Race -- A Slave's Cosmopolitanism: Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, and the Geography of Identity -- Disidentification as Identity: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Flight from Blackness |
| Summary |
"The Haitian Revolution of 1804 was significant because it not only brought into being the first Black republic in the Americas but also encouraged new visions of the interrelatedness of peoples of the African Diaspora. Black Cosmopolitanism looks to the aftermath of this historical moment to examine the disparities and similarities between the approaches to identity articulated by people of African descent in the United States, Cuba, and the British West Indies during the nineteenth century." |
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"Through readings of slave narratives, fiction, poetry, newspaper editorials, and government documents that include texts by Frederick Douglass, the freed West Indian slave Mary Prince, and the Cuban poets Placido and Juan Francisco Manzano, Nwankwo explicates this growing self-consciousness about publicly engaging other people of African descent. Ultimately, she contends, they configured their identities specifically to counter not only the Atlantic power structure's negation of their potential for transnational identity but also its simultaneous denial of their humanity and worthiness for national citizenship."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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In English |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| SUBJECT |
Universidad Sergio Arboleda gnd |
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African Americans -- Race identity.
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Black people -- Race identity -- West Indies
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Cosmopolitanism.
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Transnationalism.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American.
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African Americans -- Intellectual life
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African Americans -- Race identity
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Black people -- Race identity
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Cosmopolitanism
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Transnationalism
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Ethnische Identität
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Schwarze
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Schwarze.
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Rassische Identität.
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Intellektueller.
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Autor.
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West Indies
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Karibik
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Schwärze
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USA
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USA.
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Karibik.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780812290639 |
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0812290631 |
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0812238788 |
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9780812238785 |
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0812223233 |
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9780812223231 |
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081229212X |
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9780812292121 |
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