Crystal Nicole Eddins (Charlotte University of North Carolina)

Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first scholar to focus on collective consciousness and resistance to enslavement before the Haitian Revolution, Eddins makes a major contribution to African Diaspora studies, sociology, history, and Latin American and Caribbean studies. This readable, theoretically grounded book provides essential context to understand the Haitian Revolution.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 568g
• ISBN-13: 9781009256155
• ISBN-10: 1009256157
• Artikelnr.: 63697814

Autorenporträt

Crystal Eddins is Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research has been supported by the Ruth J. Simmons Postdoctoral Fellowship, the John Carter Brown Library, and the National Science Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Homelands, Diaspora, and Slave Society: 1. 'We Have a False Idea of the Negro': Legacies of Resistance and the African Past
2. In the Shadow of Death
Part II. Consciousness and Interaction: Cultural Expressions, Geographies and Space, Networks and Ties: 3. 'God Knows What I Do': Ritual Free Spaces
4. Mobilizing Marronnage: Race, Collective Identity, and Solidarity
5. Marronnage as Reclamation
6. Geographies of Subversion: Maroons, Borders, and Empire
Part III. Collective Action and Revolution: 7. 'We Must Stop the Progress of Marronnage': Repertoires and Repression
8. Voices of Liberty: The Haitian Revolution Begins
Conclusion
Index
Notes
References.