Eu Tenho um Pé na Cozinha

Edna Lewis ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 89-105
Author(s):  
Scott Alves Barton
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Black History ◽  
Detailed Account

Scott Alves Barton, formerly named one of the top 25 African American chefs by Ebony magazine, contextualizes Lewis as a culinary icon in his three-part essay. He emphasizes her importance to the African diaspora by giving a detailed account of how her life’s work—food—mingled so inseparably with black history.

The African Diaspora

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Parker
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
African Continent ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The One

In recent decades, research on the African diaspora has increasingly expanded from its established focus on the northern Atlantic to Latin America, the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean world, and the African continent itself. This chapter discusses differing definitions of the diaspora, considers the role of pioneering scholars in early twentieth-century Cuba, Brazil, and the United States, and examines the debate between those who have stressed lines of cultural continuity between Africa and African American peoples, on the one hand, and those who have stressed cultural transformation or ‘creolization’ in the Americas, on the other. Recent research on African American religions has moved the field beyond the search for African origins by showing how the practitioners of these belief systems creatively and strategically imagined and reimagined ‘African’ ritual identities and Africa itself. Finally, the process of creolization in the African continent itself and in the Indian Ocean are considered.

The Tide of Preparation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Ewing
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Jim Crow ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Political Activism ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Universal Negro Improvement Association ◽  
Center Stage ◽  
Political Opportunities

This chapter shows how, during a period of limited political opportunities, in which African American activism was fraught with danger, Garveyites had built a massive political movement committed to modest aims at home, but premised on the notion that members were involved, in the words of a Garveyite from Tennessee, in a “world movement…which is now felt throbbing in every corner of the globe.” Here, the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) takes center stage, Garveyites continued to nurture alliances across the African diaspora and throughout the “colored” world, and they continued to imagine their often mundane local politics against the backdrop of world anticolonialism. By framing their political aims internationally, and by projecting their radical demands for African liberation forward into an undefined future, Garveyites sustained vibrant local communities of political activism amidst the decline of the national UNIA and the constraints of Jim Crow America.

Learning Is an All-Black Thing

2020 ◽  
pp. 68-90
Author(s):  
E. James West
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Black History ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Northwestern University ◽  
Black Revolution ◽  
Black World ◽  
Black Public Intellectual

This chapter situates Ebony’s evolving black history content within the broader struggle for black-centred education and the ‘Black Revolution’ on campus during the late 1960s and early 1970s. During this period, Ebony’s historical content presented a militant and, at times, heavily gendered interpretation of the African American past. On an individual level, Bennett’s developing relationship with organisations such as Northwestern University and the Institute of the Black World underscored the uniqueness of his role as Ebony’s in-house historian, and the complexity of his position as both a magazine editor and a black public intellectual.

Thyra Edwards’s Spanish Civil War Scrapbook

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-122
Author(s):  
Anne Donlon
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Black History ◽  
Popular Front ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Feminist History ◽  
History Of

This essay examines the life of African American social worker Thyra Edwards, who traveled to Spain during its civil war, and returned home to fund-raise and organize. She created a scrapbook, a public-facing record of African American women’s efforts on behalf of Republican Spain, made up of photographs prepared for publication and articles about her efforts circulated in newspapers. This feminist perspective of the “folks at home” is a crucial addendum to black history of the war in Spain. Edwards’s scrapbook is a multifaceted document: a kind of autobiography that is self-conscious in its historical record-keeping, an account of a very broad black Popular Front, and a black feminist history of the Spanish Civil War.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuire Valkeakari
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Black History ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Middle Passage ◽  
Black Soldiers ◽  
Colonial Modernity ◽  
Diasporic Identity ◽  
Thematic Approach ◽  
Caribbean Writers

The introduction articulates this book’s four main arguments. First, as the selected novelists reimagine the lives of uprooted groups and individuals in various stages and settings of black history, they actively contribute to the ongoing transnational formation of black diasporic identity. Second, these novelists frequently evoke (some quite subtly) slavery and colonial modernity. Their allusions to the Middle Passage and enslavement speak to the choices that they make while participating in the continuing construction of black diasporic identity—regardless of whether they belong to the civil-rights generation of African American novelists or to the cultural-nationalist generation of Caribbean authors or to a later generation of contemporary transnational British, Canadian, American, and Caribbean writers. Third, as this book’s chapter on black soldiers’ wartime experiences abroad demonstrates, much can be gained through a dually focused thematic approach that both examines black novelists’ representations of diaspora and explores their depictions of more temporarily and loosely understood experiences of displacement or dislocation. Fourth, the novels discussed in this book portray a “diasporic double consciousness.” This term refers to the dislocated/relocated protagonists’ sense of not belonging and their simultaneous yearning to experience fulfilling human connection and communion in a place they could call “home.”

scholarly journals Looking for Black Religions in 20th Century Comics, 1931–1993

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 400
Author(s):  
Yvonne Chireau
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Black Religion ◽  
American Christianity ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Folk Traditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Race And Religion

Relationships between religion and comics are generally unexplored in the academic literature. This article provides a brief history of Black religions in comic books, cartoons, animation, and newspaper strips, looking at African American Christianity, Islam, Africana (African diaspora) religions, and folk traditions such as Hoodoo and Conjure in the 20th century. Even though the treatment of Black religions in the comics was informed by stereotypical depictions of race and religion in United States (US) popular culture, African American comics creators contested these by offering alternatives in their treatment of Black religion themes.

Atlantic Bonds: A Nineteenth-Century Odyssey from America to Africa

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa A. Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
South Carolina ◽  
African American ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
African Descent ◽  
Southwestern Nigeria ◽  
White Racism ◽  
Political Autonomy ◽  
American Immigrant ◽  
Politically Active

Through the contextualized biography of a previously unknown African American immigrant to Africa, this book illuminates slavery and freedom in multiple parts of the nineteenth century Atlantic world. A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828-93) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father’s dying wish: that he should leave his home in South Carolina for a new life in Africa. Over the next forty years, Vaughan was taken captive, fought in African wars, built and rebuilt a livelihood, and led a revolt against white racism, finally becoming a successful merchant and founder of a wealthy, educated, and politically active family in Lagos, Nigeria. Tracing Vaughan’s journey from South Carolina to Liberia to several parts of Yorubaland (present-day southwestern Nigeria), the book documents this “free” man’s struggle to find economic and political autonomy in an era when freedom was not clear and unhindered anywhere for people of African descent. By following Vaughan’s transatlantic journeys and comparing his experiences to those of his parents, contemporaries, and descendants in Nigeria and South Carolina, the book reveals the expansive reach of slavery, the ambiguities of freedom, and the surprising ways that Africa, rather than America, offered new opportunities for people of the African diaspora.

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