Umfang:
Online-Ressource (1 online resource (viii, 406 p.))
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ill., maps
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9780822393139
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0822393131
Serie:
e-Duke books scholarly collection
Inhalt:
Essays recovering the forgotten and downplayed histories of blacks in Central America, demonstrating the centrality of African Americans to the region s history from the earliest colonial times to the present
Anmerkung:
Description based on print version record
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Angolans in Amatitlán : sugar, African migrants, and gente ladina in colonial Guatemala / Paul LokkenCacao and slavery in Matina, Costa Rica, 1650/1750 / Russell Lohse -- Race and place in colonial Mosquitia, 1600/1787 / Karl H. Offen -- Slavery and social differentiation: slave wages in Omoa / Rina Cáceres Gómez -- Becoming free, becoming Ladino : slave emancipation and mestizaje in colonial Guatemala / Catherine Komisaruk -- "The cruel whip": race and place in nineteenth-century Nicaragua / Justin Wolfe -- What difference did color make? blacks in the "white towns" of western Nicaragua in the 1880s / Lowell Gudmundson -- Race and the space of citizenship : the Mosquito Coast and the place of blackness and indigeneity in Nicaragua / Juliet Hooker -- Eventually alien : the multigenerational saga of British West Indians in Central America, 1870/1940 / Lara Putnam -- White zones : American enclave communities of Central America / Ronald Harpelle -- The slow ascent of the marginalized : Afro-descendants in Costa Rica and Nicaragua / Mauricio Meléndez Obando.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction / Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe; I. Colonial Worlds of Slavery & Freedom; Angolans in Amatitlán: Sugar, African Migrants, and Gente Ladina in Colonial Guatemala / Paul Lokken; Cacao and Slavery in Matina, Costa Rica, 1650-1750 / Russell Lohse; Race and Place in Colonial Mosquitia, 1600-1787 / Karl H. Offen; Slavery and Social Differentiation: Slave Wages in Omoa / Rina Cáceres Gómez; Becoming Free, Becoming Ladino: Slave Emancipation and Mestizaje in Colonial Guatemala / Catherine Komisaruk; II. Nation Building & Reinscribing Race
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"The Cruel Whip": Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century Nicaragua / Justin WolfeWhat Difference Did Color Make?: Blacks in the "White Towns" of Western Nicaragua in the 1880s / Lowell Gudmundson; Race and the Space of Citizenship: The Mosquito Coast and the Place of Blackness and Indigeneity in Nicaragua / Juliet Hooker; Eventually Alien: The Multigenerational Saga of British West Indians in Central America, 1870-1940 / Lara Putnam; White Zones: American Enclave Communities of Central America / Ronald Harpelle
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The Slow Ascent of the Marginalized: Afro-Descendants in Costa Rica and Nicaragua / Mauricio Meléndez ObandoBibliography; Contributors; Index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780822347873
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ISBN 9780822348030
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ISBN 0822347873
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ISBN 0822348039
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Blacks and Blackness in Central America : Between Race and Place
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Ethnologie
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
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Electronic books
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9780822393139?locatt=mode:legacy
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