Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution - Collective Action in the African Diaspora

Informationen zum Autor Crystal Eddins is Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research has been supported by the Ruth J. Simmons Postdoctoral Fellowship, the John Carter Brown Library, and the National Science Foundation. Klappentext The first scholar to focus on collective consciousness and resistance to enslavement before the Haitian Revolution, Eddins makes a major contribution to African Diaspora studies, sociology, history, and Latin American and Caribbean studies. This readable, theoretically grounded book provides essential context to understand the Haitian Revolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Homelands, Diaspora, and Slave Society: 1. 'We Have a False Idea of the Negro': Legacies of Resistance and the African Past; 2. In the Shadow of Death; Part II. Consciousness and Interaction: Cultural Expressions, Geographies and Space, Networks and Ties: 3. 'God Knows What I Do': Ritual Free Spaces; 4. Mobilizing Marronnage: Race, Collective Identity, and Solidarity; 5. Marronnage as Reclamation; 6. Geographies of Subversion: Maroons, Borders, and Empire; Part III. Collective Action and Revolution: 7. 'We Must Stop the Progress of Marronnage': Repertoires and Repression; 8. Voices of Liberty: The Haitian Revolution Begins; Conclusion; Index; Notes; References.

Product details

• Authors: Crystal Nicole Eddins, Crystal Nicole (University of North Caroli Eddins, Crystal Nicole (University of North Carolina Eddins
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781009256155
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0925615-5
• No. of pages: 378
• Series: Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora; Cambridge Studies on the Afric
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Latin America, HISTORY / Latin America / General, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, History of the Americas