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All across the US in the last few years, there has been a resurgence of Black protest against structural racism and other forms of racial injustice.
Black Resistance in the Americas draws attention to this renewed energy and how this theme of resistance intersects with other communities of Black people around the world.
Sommario
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction
D.A. Dunkley
PART 1 Race, Nation, and Resistance in Brazil and the Caribbean
1 Resistance and the Evaporation of Masters' Authority: Two Brazilian Cases
Karl Monsma
2 Rastafari: Race and Spirituality
D.A. Dunkley
3 Birth and Death of a Creole Nation
Raymond Ramcharitar
4 Black Man's Cry in the Babylon System: A Comparative Analysis of Fela Kuti and Bob Marley
Stephanie Shonekan
5 On the Wings: Muralism as Feminist Political Praxis by Afro-Puerto Rican Women
Bethzabeth Colón-Pizzini
6 A Geração Tombamento: Black Empowerment Through Aesthetics in Salvador da Bahia
Joshua Reason
7 English Language Hegemony and STEM Education in the Caribbean
Wilton Lodge
PART 2 African American Narratives of Resistance
8 "No Scheme More Monstrous Could Have Been Invented": Slave Election Ceremonies and the New York Slave Conspiracy of 1741
Lawrence Celani
9 Anna Julia Cooper's Quintessential Resistance in the Early Pan-Africanist Voice of Women
April Langley
10 Unlikely Agents of Change: Desegregation at the University of Missouri
Mary Beth Brown
11 Rewriting the Bible: The Jesus Figure in Black Atlantic Women's Literature
Aurélia Mouzet
12 Big Chief: The Black Indian Tradition of New Orleans
Sascha (Alexandra) Just
13 Black Nationalism and the Presidency of Donald Trump
Stephen C.W. Graves
Conclusion
Stephanie Shonekan
Index
Info autore
D.A. Dunkley is Assistant Professor in the Department of Black Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia.
Stephanie Shonekan is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Black Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia.
Riassunto
All across the US in the last few years, there has been a resurgence of Black protest against structural racism and other forms of racial injustice. Black Resistance in the Americas draws attention to this renewed energy and how this theme of resistance intersects with other communities of Black people around the world.
Testo aggiuntivo
"A valuable contribution to the current discussion on race and structural racism in both the United States and the Americas." --Cedric D. Burrows, Marquette University
