| Description |
xiv, 329 pages : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Blacks in the diaspora |
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Blacks in the diaspora.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Of laughter and kola nuts; or, what does Africa have to do with the African diaspora? / Faith Lois Smith -- From Africa to "the islands" : New World voyages in the fiction of Maryse Condé and Paule Marshall / Anthea Morrison -- Mary Rose, "white" African Jamaican women? : race and gender in eighteenth-century Jamaica / Linda L. Sturtz -- Trading places : market negotiations in Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands / Antonia MacDonald-Smythe -- Blacks in the white imagination : race in the investigation of rape on nineteenth-century emigrant ships to the colonial Caribbean / Verene A. Shepherd -- Maria Jones of Africa, St. Vincent, and Trinidad / Brinsley Samaroo -- Slavery, marriage, and gender relations in Eastern Yorubaland, 1875-1920 / Olatunji Ojo -- On equal/unequal footing with men : diaspora linkages and issues of gender and education policy in Barbados, 1875-1945 / Janice Mayers -- Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Nigerian Progress Union / Hakim Adi -- "Crack kernels, crack Hitler" : export production drive and Igbo women during the Second World War / Gloria Chuku -- Intersections : Nigerian episodes in the careers of three West Indian women / LaRay Denzer -- Immigrant voices in Cyberspace : spinning continental and diasporan Africans into the World Wide Web / Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome. |
| Subject |
Women, Black -- Caribbean Area.
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Women, Black -- Nigeria.
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Black people -- Race identity.
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African diaspora.
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| Added Author |
Byfield, Judith A. (Judith Ann-Marie)
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Denzer, LaRay.
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Morrison, Anthea.
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| ISBN |
9780253354167 cloth alkaline paper |
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0253354161 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780253221537 paperback alkaline paper |
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0253221536 paperback alkaline paper |
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