Walter C Jr. Rucker

Gold Coast Diasporas

Identity, Culture, and Power

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Walter C. Rucker, Associate Professor of African diaspora and Atlantic history at Rutgers University, is the author of The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9780253016942
• ISBN-10: 0253016940
• Artikelnr.: 41846730

Autorenporträt

Walter C. Rucker, John K. Thornton, John K. Thornton

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part One: Social Life and Death
1. Gold Coast Backgrounds
2. Making the Gold Coast Diaspora
3. Slavery, Ethnogenesis, and Social Resurrection
Part Two: Social Resurrection and Empowerment
4. State, Governance, and War
5. Obeah, Oaths, and Ancestral Spirits
6. Women, Regeneration, and Power
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index