Slavery, memory, citizenship / Paul E. Lovejoy and Vanessa S. Oliveira, eds.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lovejoy, Paul E. (Author, Editor)
Oliveira, Vanessa S., 1980- (Author, Editor)
Language:English
Published: Trenton : Africa World Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Slavery.
African diaspora.
Racism.
Race relations.
Collective memory.
Physical Description:xxviii, 442 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: Slavery, Memory, Citizenship / Paul E. Lovejoy
  • Part I: Slavery
  • Slave life in the Canadian Maritime Colonies / Harvey Amani Whitfield
  • Afro-descendant slaves in the legal system of colonial Chile, 1770-1823 / Carolina Gonzalez
  • Discipline and masculinities in slave communities of the antebellum South / David Doddington
  • Trauma in diaspora: slavocentric visions of African American identity in Liberia and the antebellum United States / Ben Schiller
  • 'Over the way' on the border of Canada before the Civil War / Dann J. Broyld
  • Slavery and the forgotten women slave owners of Luanda (1846-1876) / Vanessa S. Oliveira
  • Part II: Memory
  • Identifying Juan Correa, the painter, and Vicente Guerrero, independence leader, in Mexican history / Maria Elisa Velazquez
  • Dawn of tomorrow, 'a noble tradition to be maintained' in the historical memory of Canada / Melissa N. Shaw
  • Confronting 'liberal lies' about Black Canada: George Elliott Clarke and the children of Frantz Fanon / Daniel McNeil
  • Devoir d'histoire: confronting the history of slavery in public space in France / Sonja Dinter
  • Conflicting narratives of identity and the past in the memory of slavery in Guadeloupe / Ary Gordien
  • Walls of memory and political expression in Port-au-Prince / Lenique Gaspard
  • Part III: Citizenship
  • Integration and assimilation? Afro-Mexicans in the birth of the Mexican nation, 1810-1850 / Maria Camila Diaz Casas
  • Re-appropriating the repressive past through memories of slavery in the Mandara Mountains / Chetima Melchisedek and Gaimatakwan Kr Dujok Alexandre
  • 'Forgetting' slavery, resilience and the end of national deafness in France / Myriam Cottias
  • Art, citizenship and reparations for slavery: practices and perspectives from two engaged artists in Rio de Janeiro / Francine Saillant
  • Compensation and the legacy of trans-Atlantic slavery in international law / Blaise Tchikaya
  • Appendix. Summer institute 2011: slavery, memory, citizenship.