Ethnicity and Slavery in the Americas: A Reader
- ISBN-10
- 1592212131
- ISBN-13
- 9781592212132
- Pages
- 328
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Authors
- Paul E. Lovejoy, Toyin Falola, David V. Trotman
Description
This volume assembles the key articles written by the pioneering scholars who have studied ethnicity and slavery in the Americas and therefore is an essential reader for courses on the African Diaspora, the sociology of race, processes of creolization, resistance and culture change. Until this collection, these seminal articles on the different parts of the African Diaspora in the Americas have remained scattered, some published in journals that are not everywhere accessible. Drawing on their experience in teaching African history and the history of the African Diaspora, the editors have selected a rich and varied sample of the studies that have shaped the ways in which the African Diaspora have been studied. Issues of cultural survival and historical continuities are addressed in this collection. The focus is on the process of creolization and the importance of the African past in the shaping of the cultures of the Americas. In their introduction, the editors explore the range of articles and their influence on the shaping of African Diaspora studies. The editors explore the various theories of Sidney Mintz and Richard Price, Fernando Ortiz, A. Beltran, Nina Rodriguez, W.E.B. DuBois, St. Clair Drake, and Joseph Harris, as well as more recent theories of the Black Atlantic and Afro-centrism.
