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• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 55,7 Mb
• Release Date : 16 January 2020

Shows that the law of freedom, not slavery, determined the way that race developed over time in three slave societies.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 38,9 Mb
• Release Date : 16 January 2020

How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and

• Publisher : LSU Press
• File Size : 37,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 May 2003

Louisiana state law was unique in allowing slaves to contract for their freedom and to initiate a lawsuit for liberty. Judith Kelleher Schafer describes the ingenious and remarkably sophisticated ways

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 32,6 Mb
• Release Date : 10 April 2010

Becoming Free in the Cotton South challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or the ending of the story,

• Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
• File Size : 34,5 Mb
• Release Date : 07 June 2024

Anthropologists widely agree that identities_even ethnic and racial ones_are socially constructed. Less understood are the processes by which social identities are conceived and developed. Legalizing Identities shows how

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 32,7 Mb
• Release Date : 03 April 2018

After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s. In addition to symbolic recognition of indigenous peoples and

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 52,6 Mb
• Release Date : 27 September 2007

The first slaves imported to America did not see themselves as "African" but rather as Temne, Igbo, or Yoruban. In Becoming African in America, James Sidbury reveals how an African

• Publisher : Duke University Press
• File Size : 30,5 Mb
• Release Date : 07 June 2024

DIVA theoretical troubling of the assumptions of uniformity in Blackness, comparing writings by and about African diasporic subjects from the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany./div

• Publisher : Duke University Press
• File Size : 38,8 Mb
• Release Date : 21 October 2016

In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake." Activating multiple

• Publisher : UNC Press Books
• File Size : 38,5 Mb
• Release Date : 27 March 2017

In 1948, journalist Ray Sprigle traded his whiteness to live as a black man for four weeks. A little over a decade later, John Howard Griffin famously "became" black as well,