Gold Coast Diasporas - Identity, Culture, and Power

Informationen zum Autor Walter C. Rucker, John K. Thornton, John K. Thornton Klappentext Walter C. Rucker, Associate Professor of African diaspora and Atlantic history at Rutgers University, is the author of The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part One: Social Life and Death 1. Gold Coast Backgrounds 2. Making the Gold Coast Diaspora 3. Slavery, Ethnogenesis, and Social Resurrection Part Two: Social Resurrection and Empowerment 4. State, Governance, and War 5. Obeah, Oaths, and Ancestral Spirits 6. Women, Regeneration, and Power Postscript Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Walter C Rucker, Walter C Jr. Rucker, Walter C. Rucker, Rucker Walter C, John K Thornton, John K. Thornton
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9780253016942
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01694-2
• No. of pages: 326
• Series: Blacks in the Diaspora (Hardco; Blacks in the Diaspora
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous