scholarly journals Ras Kimono, the Relics of Slavery and the African Diaspora: A Study on the Socio-Cultural Factors in the Haitian-Biafran Relations

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ibenekwu Ikpechukwuka E. ◽  
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Uche Uwaezuoke Okonkwo ◽  
Efobi Ifesinachi ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
New World ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Slave Narratives ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
African Slave ◽  
Southeastern Nigeria ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Nigerian Civil War

It is no longer news that people of African descent were enslaved to the new world via: Caribbean, America and Europe for more than four hundred years. Rastafari movement has always engaged in the history of memory especially to reminiscence about slave experiences. Bob Marley songs are replete with such freedom chants. For example, Marley’s Redemption song and Buffalo Soldier are strong lyrics about the horrors of slavery. The cultural linkage between the Igbo of Southeastern Nigeria and Haiti in the Caribbean is examined, especially the nexus between Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Haitian support to the Biafran struggle during the Nigerian Civil War 1967-1970 re-echoes the African slave narratives as Kimono recorded in his song.

Scheherazade in Chains

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Frydman
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
New World ◽  
Slave Narratives ◽  
Early History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Black Literature ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The One

The understudied archive of Muslim slave narratives demands a reconfiguration of the early history of New World Black literature, on the one hand asserting Arabic letters and Orientalist mediations as foundational discursive sources while on the other hand directing greater attention to narrative production in West Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. Consistently marked in their time and ours by a racist dialectic of amnesia and surprise, these Muslim narrators draw upon devices of the Arab-Islamic tradition even as they anticipate the experiences of administrative detention, of the expired visa, of deportation, and of repatriation. In their enduring oscillation between obscurity and legibility, and in our own efforts to assemble their traces, we must confront and honor these narrators’ eventual retreat from interpellation, a reticence that vexes even as it structures the archive of the Global South Atlantic: resistant, dispersed, decentered, and opaque.

Romancing the Stone: Academe’s Illusive Template for African Diaspora Studies

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-39
Author(s):  
Melina Pappademos
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
North Americans ◽  
History Of ◽  
America South ◽  
Research Plan ◽  
The Caribbean

I began graduate school in 1994 to study the history of American peoples of African descent; I saw important similarities between their cultures and their resistance struggles and sought to develop a comparative project. However, as I began casting my long term research plan— which was to compare Afro-Cubans and Afro-North Americans—I discovered and uncovered many stumbling blocks. The primary one was that academe grouped African descended people by their European and colonially derived relationships (ex: North America, Latin America, South America, and the Caribbean) and not by their Black derived positions. I may have been naive but this seemed problematic to me.

The Bridge Connecting Silkworms to Mosquitos

2021 ◽  
pp. 143-159
Author(s):  
Robert N. Wiedenmann ◽  
J. Ray Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Yellow Fever ◽  
Mediterranean Islands ◽  
Slave Labor ◽  
African Slave ◽  
Western Asia ◽  
Slave Ships ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Collapse ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Atlantic Island

This chapter relates the history of sugar, a thread that links the Silk Roads, Portuguese sailors, Atlantic islands, endangered seals, the African slave trade, and yellow fever, all because of our physiological need for glucose, which we satisfy with sugar. The chapter tells how from its origin in Southeast Asia, sugarcane, later called “Creole cane” and processing technology moved along the Silk Roads to Western Asia, then to Mediterranean islands. To begin with, Portuguese colonists transformed the Atlantic island of Madeira into a large sugar producer using slave labor until ecological and economic collapse forced production to move to São Tomé, using Angolan slave labor. After Portugal discovered Brazil, colonists took sugarcane with them, creating large plantations and initiating the enslavement and trans-Atlantic movement of millions of Africans. As the chapter shows, sugar production moved into the Caribbean and Central America, and African slave ships inadvertently carried yellow fever and yellow fever mosquito to the Americas.

Introduction

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Ewing
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Organic Mass ◽  
Ancient History ◽  
Diasporic Identity ◽  
Mass Politics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Common Destiny

This introductory chapter briefly presents some new perspectives on Garveyism. Though commonly recognized as one of the most important phenomena in the history of the African diaspora, observers of the Garvey phenomenon often struggle to explain it. This chapter (and the book as a whole) attempt to fill in the gaps in Garvey scholarship by characterizing Garveyism as a method of organic mass politics, in which “process” was privileged over “stance”; and a sustained project of diasporic identity building, where “race” according to Marcus Mosiah Garvey was a fixed signifier, connecting peoples of African descent to a single, ancient history, and guiding them to a common destiny. To conclude, the chapter discusses the structure and approach this volume will undertake in studying Garvey.

REVIEW OF THE NEW WORLD EYELESS WEEVILS WITH UNCINATE TIBIAE (COLEOPTERA, CURCULIONIDAE; MOLYTINAE, CRYPTORHYNCHINAE, COSSONINAE)

1992 ◽  
Vol 124 (S162) ◽  
pp. 3-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne T. Howden
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
New Species ◽  
New World ◽  
Distribution Patterns ◽  
Virgin Islands ◽  
Central United States ◽  
History Of ◽  
Present Distribution ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
New Synonymy

AbstractThe majority of the species of the New World litter-inhabiting eyeless weevils belong to groups possessing uncinate tibiae: Molytinae, Cryptorhynchinae, and Cossoninae. The remaining species are Raymondionymini (Erirhininae) and are not included in this work.Eight genera and 40 species with uncinate tibiae are diagnosed and keyed. Caecossonus Gilbert (four species) is revised and the following new species are described: C. continuus (Mexico); C. sylvaticus (Belize). Decuanellus Osella (10 species) is revised and the following new species are described: D. bahamensis (Bahama Islands); D. brevicrus (Virgin Islands); D. iviei (Virgin Islands); D. longirostris (Puerto Rico); D. muchmorei (Virgin Islands). The new genus Kuschelaxius is proposed and the type species K. tomentosus (Puerto Rico) is described from Puerto Rico. The new species K. discifer is described from Hispaniola. No new species are described in the remaining genera: Howdeniola Osella (two species, Colombia); Lymantes Schoenherr (five species, central United States, El Salvador); Neotorneuma Hustache (one species, Chile); Pseudoalaocybites Osella (15 species, Cuba, Jamaica, Colombia, and Venezuela); Pseudocaecocossonus Osella (one species, Cuba). There are many undescribed species in Lymantes and Pseudoalaocybites, and problems precluding much-needed revisions of these genera are detailed.New combinations and a new synonymy are as follows: Bordoniola Osella is transferred to Raymondionymini; Howdeniola is transferred to Cossoninae; Caecossonus negreai Osella is transferred to Pseudoalaocybites (Pseudoalaocybites); Pseudoalaocybites (Pseudoalaocybites) venezuelanus Osella is transferred to P. (Croizatius); Pseudoalaocybites (Croizatius) montanus Osella is a junior synonym of P. (C.) latithorax Osella.Both the geological history of the Caribbean and dispersal by overwater rafting influenced the present distribution patterns of Caecossonus and Decuanellus.

AHR Conversation: Black Internationalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (5) ◽  
pp. 1699-1739
Author(s):  
Monique Bedasse ◽  
Kim D. Butler ◽  
Carlos Fernandes ◽  
Dennis Laumann ◽  
Tejasvi Nagaraja ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Black Internationalism ◽  
Black Resistance ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Intellectual Production

Abstract This annual AHR Conversation focuses on the issues and historiographic debates raised by the term “Black Internationalism.” Participants Monique Bedasse, Kim D. Butler, Carlos Fernandes, Dennis Laumann, Tejasvi Nagaraja, Benjamin Talton, and Kira Thurman bring a wide array of interests and areas of expertise to bear on the origins, evolution, and meaning of the concept of Black Internationalism; its application within Africa, the U.S., and the African diaspora more generally; and its relationship to gender, nationalism, and anticolonialism. In addition to tracing the deep roots of this framework for writing the history of Black resistance to slavery, colonialism, and white supremacy as global phenomena, they insist on seeing Black Internationalism from multiple points on the compass. Perspectives derived from the history—and intellectual production—of Africa, Europe, South America, and the Caribbean prove just as important, if not more so, than those emanating from the United States.

Yellow Fever

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-122
Author(s):  
Michael B. A. Oldstone
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Yellow Fever ◽  
American Indians ◽  
New World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Westward Expansion ◽  
Black African ◽  
African Slaves ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean

This chapter examines the history of yellow fever, the role it played in shaping slavery in the United States, and its part in the country’s westward expansion. Yellow fever was an endemic disease of West Africa that traveled to the New World and elsewhere aboard trading ships with their cargoes of slaves. The black African peoples, although easily infected, nevertheless withstood the effects in that fewer died from the infection than Caucasians, American Indians, or Asians. Ironically, as smallpox and measles devastated natives along the Caribbean coast and islands, growing numbers of African slaves were brought to replace those plantation laborers. When the value of Africans over natives became apparent, by virtue of the blacks’ resistance to yellow fever, the importation of these Africans increased still further. Because it was so lethal to susceptible humans, yellow fever actually disrupted exploration into the Caribbean. In fact, American expansion became possible only after a team led by Walter Reed arrived in Cuba to combat the disease and prove it was transmitted by the Aedes aegypti mosquito.

Perceiving Learning Anew: Social Interaction, Dignity, and Educational Rights

2014 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Luis Espinoza ◽  
Shirin Vossoughi
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Slave Narratives ◽  
American Education ◽  
African American Education ◽  
African Slave ◽  
Intellectual Activity ◽  
Educational Rights ◽  
History Of ◽  
Educative Experiences

What are the origins of educational rights? In this essay, Espinoza and Vossoughi assert that educational rights are “produced,” “affirmed,” and “negated” not only through legislative and legal channels but also through an evolving spectrum of educational activities embedded in everyday life. Thus, they argue that the “heart” of educational rights—the very idea that positive educative experiences resulting in learning are a human entitlement irrespective of social or legal status—has come to inhere in the educational experiences of persons subjected to social degradation and humiliation. After examining key moments in the African American educational rights experience as composite historical products, the authors determine that learning is “dignity-conferring” and “rights-generative.” They revisit African slave narratives, testimony from landmark desegregation cases, and foundational texts in the history of African American education where they find luminous first-person accounts of intellectual activity in the shadow of sanction, suppression, discouragement, and punishment. They conclude by outlining an empirical framework for studying the nexus of learning, dignity, and educational rights from a social interactional perspective.

Race, Health, and the African Diaspora

2007 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 161-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clarence Spigner
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
African Americans ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
National Policy ◽  
African Continent ◽  
Racial Stratification ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean

Health inequalities exist throughout the African Diaspora and are viewed in this article as largely color-coded. In developed, developing, and undeveloped nations today, “racial” stratification is consistently reflected in an inability to provide adequate health regardless of national policy or ideology. For instance, African Americans experience less than adequate health care very similar to Blacks in Britain, in spite of each nations differing health systems. Latin America's Africana Negra communities experience poorer health similar to Blacks throughout the Caribbean. The African continent itself is arguably the poorest on earth. A common history of racism correlates with health disparities across the African Diaspora.

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