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Black Resistance in the Americas book cover

1st Edition

Black Resistance in the Americas

Edited By D.A. Dunkley, Stephanie Shonekan Copyright 2019
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge
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All across the United States, 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 to how this theme of resistance intersects with other communities of Black people around the world. This edited collection examines in-depth stories of... Read more

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Introduction

D.A. DUNKLEY

SECTION 1

Race, Nation, and Resistance in Brazil and The Caribbean

  1. Resistance and the Evaporation of Masters’ Authority: Two Brazilian Cases

    2. KARL MONSMA

  2. Rastafari: Race and Spirituality

    3. D.A. DUNKLEY

  3. Birth and Death of a Creole Nation

    4. RAYMOND RAMCHARITAR

  4. Black Man’s Cry in the Babylon System: A Comparative Analysis of Fela Kuti and Bob Marley

    5. STEPHANIE SHONEKAN

  5. On the Wings: Muralism as Feminist Political Praxis by Afro-Puerto Rican Women

    6. BETHZABETH COLÓN-PIZZINI

  6. A Geração Tombamento: Black Empowerment through Aesthetics in Salvador da Bahia

    7. JOSHUA REASON

  7. English Language Hegemony and STEM Education in the Caribbean

    8. WILTON LODGE

    SECTION 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

    9. LAWRENCE CELANI

  9. Anna Julia Cooper’s Quintessential Resistance in the Early Pan-Africanist Voice of Women

    10. APRIL LANGLEY

  10. Unlikely Agents of Change: Desegregation at the University of Missouri

    11. MARY BETH BROWN

  11. Rewriting the Bible: The Jesus Figure in Black Atlantic Women’s Literature

    12. AURÉLIA MOUZET

  12. Big Chief: The Black Indian Tradition of New Orleans

    13. SASCHA (ALEXANDRA) JUST

  13. Black Nationalism and the Presidency of Donald Trump

STEPHEN C.W. GRAVES

Conclusion

STEPHANIE SHONEKAN

Index

Biography

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.

"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

 

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