Afro Creole
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Afro Creole
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Author : Richard D. E. Burton
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-18
Afro Creole written by Richard D. E. Burton and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-18 with History categories.
This wide-ranging book explores the origins, development, and character of Afro-Caribbean cultures from the slave period to the present day. Richard D. E. Burton focuses on ways in which African traditions—including those in religion, music, food, dress, and family structure—were transformed by interaction with European and indigenous forces to create the particular cultures of Jamaica, Trinidad, and Haiti. He demonstrates how the resulting Afro-Creole cultures have both challenged and reinforced the social, political, and economic status quo in these countries.Jamaican slaves opposed slavery in many ways and one of the most important, Burton suggests, was the development of Afro-Christianity. He pays particular attention to the African-derived Christmas celebration of Jonkonnu as an expression of opposition and then documents religion in the post-slavery period, with an emphasis on Rastafarianism in Jamaica and Vodou in Haiti. The element of play has always figured importantly in Afro-Caribbean life. Burton examines the evolution of carnival and calypso in Trinidad and describes the significance of cricket in defining Caribbean national identity. Based on ten years of research, Afro-Creole draws on historical, anthropological, sociological, and literary sources. Burton characterizes the emergence of Caribbean identity with three different national flavors and demonstrates how culture both reflects and impacts people's changing sense of their own political power.
Louisiana Creole Peoplehood
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Author : Rain Prud'homme-Cranford
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2022-03-22
Louisiana Creole Peoplehood written by Rain Prud'homme-Cranford and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-22 with Social Science categories.
Over the course of more than three centuries, the diverse communities of Louisiana have engaged in creative living practices to forge a vibrant, multifaceted, and fully developed Creole culture. Against the backdrop of ongoing anti-Blackness and Indigenous erasure that has sought to undermine this rich culture, Louisiana Creoles have found transformative ways to uphold solidarity, kinship, and continuity, retaking Louisiana Creole agency as a post-contact Afro-Indigenous culture. Engaging themes as varied as foodways, queer identity, health, historical trauma, language revitalization, and diaspora, Louisiana Creole Peoplehood explores vital ways a specific Afro-Indigenous community asserts agency while promoting cultural sustainability, communal dialogue, and community reciprocity. With interviews, essays, and autobiographic contributions from community members and scholars, Louisiana Creole Peoplehood tracks the sacred interweaving of land and identity alongside the legacies and genealogies of Creole resistance to bring into focus the Afro-Indigenous people written out of settler governmental policy. In doing so, this collection intervenes against the erasure of Creole Indigeneity to foreground Black/Indian cultural sustainability, agency, and self-determination.
A Luminous Brotherhood
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Author : Emily Suzanne Clark
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2016-08-26
A Luminous Brotherhood written by Emily Suzanne Clark and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-26 with Religion categories.
In the midst of a nineteenth-century boom in spiritual experimentation, the Cercle Harmonique, a remarkable group of African-descended men, practiced Spiritualism in heavily Catholic New Orleans from just before the Civil War to the end of Reconstruction. In this first comprehensive history of the Cercle, Emily Suzanne Clark illuminates how highly diverse religious practices wind in significant ways through American life, culture, and history. Clark shows that the beliefs and practices of Spiritualism helped Afro-Creoles mediate the political and social changes in New Orleans, as free blacks suffered increasingly restrictive laws and then met with violent resistance to suffrage and racial equality. Drawing on fascinating records of actual seance practices, the lives of the mediums, and larger citywide and national contexts, Clark reveals how the messages that the Cercle received from the spirit world offered its members rich religious experiences as well as a forum for political activism inspired by republican ideals. Messages from departed souls including Francois Rabelais, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown, Robert E. Lee, Emanuel Swedenborg, and even Confucius discussed government structures, the moral progress of humanity, and equality. The Afro-Creole Spiritualists were encouraged to continue struggling for justice in a new world where "bright" spirits would replace raced bodies.
Revolution Romanticism And The Afro Creole Protest Tradition In Louisiana 1718 1868
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Author : Caryn Cossé Bell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Revolution Romanticism And The Afro Creole Protest Tradition In Louisiana 1718 1868 written by Caryn Cossé Bell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with African Americans categories.
With the Federal occupation of New Orleans in 1862, Afro-Creole leaders in that city and their white allies seized upon the ideals of the American and French Revolutions and images of revolutionary events in the French Caribbean and demanded liberte, egalite, fraternite. Rooted in the egalitarianism of the age of democratic revolution, a Catholic universalist ethic, and Romantic philosophy, their republican idealism produced the postwar South's most progressive vision of the future. Caryn Cosse Bell, in her impressive, sweeping study, traces the eighteenth-century origins of this Afro-Creole political and intellectual heritage, its evolution in the antebellum New Orleans, and its impact on the war and Reconstruction, addressing a long-neglected aspect of Louisiana's political history and brilliantly recovering this biracial protest tradition. Covering more than a century and a half, Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868 makes many fresh connections between the Afro-Creole and American experiences and provides new insight into many ongoing historiographical debates. It also opens anew entire avenues of discussion, including the political impact of masonic universalism, francophone trans-Atlanticism, and the radical republican diaspora of 1848.
Afro Creole Poetry In French From Louisiana S Radical Civil War Era Newspapers
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Author : Clint Bruce
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Afro Creole Poetry In French From Louisiana S Radical Civil War Era Newspapers written by Clint Bruce and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with French American poetry categories.
"Original French text and English translations of Afro-Creole poetry published in L'Union and La Tribune (Civil War-era New Orleans newspapers established by free people of color), with a scholarly introduction and brief biographies of the poets"--
Africans In Colonial Louisiana
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Author : Gwendolyn Midlo Hall
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1995-07
Africans In Colonial Louisiana written by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-07 with History categories.
Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now has undertaken a comprehensive assessment of the development of the distinctive Afro-Creole culture of colonial Louisiana. This culture, based upon a separate language community with its own folkloric, musical, religious, and historical traditions, was created by slaves brought directly from Africa to Louisiana before 1731. It still survives as the acknowledged cultural heritage of tens of thousands of people of all races in the southern part of the state. In this pathbreaking work, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall studies Louisiana's creole slave community during the eighteenth century, focusing on the slaves' African origins, the evolution of their own language and culture, and the role they played in the formation of the broader society, economy, and culture of the region. Hall bases her study on research in a wide range of archival sources in Louisiana, France, and Spain and employs several disciplines--history, anthropology, linguistics, and folklore--in her analysis. Among the topics she considers are the French slave trade from Africa to Louisiana, the ethnic origins of the slaves, and relations between African slaves and native Indians. She gives special consideration to race mixture between Africans, Indians, and whites; to the role of slaves in the Natchez Uprising of 1729; to slave unrest and conspiracies, including the Pointe Coupee conspiracies of 1791 and 1795; and to the development of communities of runaway slaves in the cypress swamps around New Orleans.
Sacral Grooves Limbo Gateways
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Author : Keith Cartwright
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2013
Sacral Grooves Limbo Gateways written by Keith Cartwright and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Literary Criticism categories.
“We're seeing people that we didn't know exist,” the director of FEMA acknowledged in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Sacral Grooves, Limbo Gateways offers a corrective to some of America's institutionalized invisibilities by delving into the submerged networks of ritual performance, writing, intercultural history, and migration that have linked the coastal U.S. South with the Caribbean and the wider Atlantic world. This interdisciplinary study slips beneath the bar of rigid national and literary periods, embarking upon deeper—more rhythmic and embodied—signatures of time. It swings low through ecologies and symbolic orders of creolized space. And it reappraises pluralistic modes of knowledge, kinship, and authority that have sustained vital forms of agency (such as jazz) amid abysses of racialized trauma. Drawing from Haitian Vodou and New Orleanian Voudou and from Cuban and South Floridian Santería, as well as from Afro-Baptist (Caribbean, Geechee, and Bahamian) models of encounters with otherness, this book reemplaces deep-southern texts within the counterclockwise ring-stepping of a long Afro-Atlantic modernity. Turning to an orphan girl's West African initiation tale to follow a remarkably traveled body of feminine rites and writing (in works by Paule Marshall, Zora Neale Hurston, Lydia Cabrera, William Faulkner, James Weldon Johnson, and LeAnne Howe, among others), Cartwright argues that only in holistic form, emergent from gulfs of cross-cultural witness, can literary and humanistic authority find legitimacy. Without such grounding, he contends, our educational institutions blind and even poison students, bringing them to “swallow lye,” like the grandson of Phoenix Jackson in Eudora Welty's “A Worn Path.” Here, literary study may open pathways to alternative medicines—fetched by tenacious avatars like Phoenix (or an orphan Kumba or a shell-shaking Turtle)—to remedy the lies our partial histories have made us swallow.
Revolution Romanticism And The Afro Creole Protest Tradition In Louisiana 1718 1868
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Author : Caryn Cossé Bell
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1997
Revolution Romanticism And The Afro Creole Protest Tradition In Louisiana 1718 1868 written by Caryn Cossé Bell and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
With the Federal occupation of New Orleans in 1862, Afro-Creole leaders in that city, along with their white allies, seized upon the ideals of the American and French Revolutions and images of revolutionary events in the French Caribbean and demanded Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité. Their republican idealism produced the postwar South's most progressive vision of the future. Caryn Cossé Bell, in her impressive, sweeping study, traces the eighteenth-century origins of this Afro-Creole political and intellectual heritage, its evolution in antebellum New Orleans, and its impact on the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Talking In Tones
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Author : Hubert Devonish
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Talking In Tones written by Hubert Devonish and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Creole And Afro Creole Music Of Louisiana
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Author : Cecily Reeves Beasley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Creole And Afro Creole Music Of Louisiana written by Cecily Reeves Beasley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with African Americans categories.