Michael A. Gomez

Reversing Sail

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Beginning with antiquity, Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience. The second edition updates the text of the previous edition to be current with the most recent research on the African Diaspora.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9781108498715
• ISBN-10: 110849871X
• Artikelnr.: 56928641

Autorenporträt

Michael A. Gomez is Silver Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies and Islamic Studies at New York University, and Director of NYU's Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora (CSAAD). He is also Series Editor of the Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora. In addition to the first edition of Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora (Cambridge, 2004), he is the author of several books, including African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa (2018) and Black Crescent: African Muslims in the Americas (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. 'Old' World Dimensions and the First Wave: 1. Antiquity
2. Africans and the Bible
3. Africans and the Islamic World
Part II. 'New' World Realities and Diaspora's Second Wave (to 1945): 4. Transatlantic moment and the dawn of modernity
5. Enslavement
6. Asserting the right to be
7. Reconnecting
Part III. Empire's Dismantling and the Third Wave (since 1945): 8. Movement people
9. Global Africa in the era of Mandela and Obama
Epilogue
Index.