Full Description
All across the United States, in the last few years, there has been a resurgence of Black protest against structural racism and other forms of racial injustice. Black Resistance in the Americas draws attention to this renewed energy and to how this theme of resistance intersects with other communities of Black people around the world. This edited collection examines in-depth stories of resistance against slavery; narratives of resistance in African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-Latin American literature; resistance in politics, education, religion, music, dance, and film, exploring a range of new perspectives from established and emerging researchers on Black communities. The chapters in this pivotal book discuss some of the mechanisms that Black communities have used to resist bondage, domination, disempowerment, inequality, and injustices resulting from their encounters with the West, from colonization to forced migration.
Contents
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction
D.A. Dunkley
PART 1 Race, Nation, and Resistance in Brazil and the Caribbean
1 Resistance and the Evaporation of Masters' Authority: Two Brazilian Cases
Karl Monsma
2 Rastafari: Race and Spirituality
D.A. Dunkley
3 Birth and Death of a Creole Nation
Raymond Ramcharitar
4 Black Man's Cry in the Babylon System: A Comparative Analysis of Fela Kuti and Bob Marley
Stephanie Shonekan
5 On the Wings: Muralism as Feminist Political Praxis by Afro-Puerto Rican Women
Bethzabeth Colón-Pizzini
6 A Geração Tombamento: Black Empowerment Through Aesthetics in Salvador da Bahia
Joshua Reason
7 English Language Hegemony and STEM Education in the Caribbean
Wilton Lodge
PART 2 African American Narratives of Resistance
8 "No Scheme More Monstrous Could Have Been Invented": Slave Election Ceremonies and the New York Slave Conspiracy of 1741
Lawrence Celani
9 Anna Julia Cooper's Quintessential Resistance in the Early Pan-Africanist Voice of Women
April Langley
10 Unlikely Agents of Change: Desegregation at the University of Missouri
Mary Beth Brown
11 Rewriting the Bible: The Jesus Figure in Black Atlantic Women's Literature
Aurélia Mouzet
12 Big Chief: The Black Indian Tradition of New Orleans
Sascha (Alexandra) Just
13 Black Nationalism and the Presidency of Donald Trump
Stephen C.W. Graves
Conclusion
Stephanie Shonekan
Index
