Obeah Race And Racism
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Obeah Race And Racism
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Author : Eugenia O'Neal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-01-24
Obeah Race And Racism written by Eugenia O'Neal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-24 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
In Obeah, Race and Racism, Eugenia O'Neal vividly discusses the tradition of African magic and witchcraft, traces its voyage across the Atlantic and its subsequent evolution on the plantations of the New World, and provides a detailed map of how English writers, poets and dramatists interpreted it for English audiences. The triangular trade in guns and baubles, enslaved Africans and gold, sugar and cotton was mirrored by a similar intellectual trade borne in the reports, accounts and stories that fed the perceptions and prejudices of everyone involved in the slave trade and no subject was more fascinating and disconcerting to Europeans than the religious beliefs of the people they had enslaved. Indeed, African magic made its own triangular voyage; starting from Africa, Obeah crossed the Atlantic to the Caribbean, then journeyed back across the ocean, in the form of traveller's narratives and plantation reports, to Great Britain where it was incorporated into the plots of scores of books and stories which went on to shape and form the world view of explorers and colonial officials in Britain's far-flung empire. O'Neal examines what British writers knew or thought they knew about Obeah and discusses how their perceptions of black people were shaped by their perceptions of Obeah. Translated or interpreted by racist writers as a devil-worshipping religion, Obeah came to symbolize the brutality, savagery and superstition in which blacks were thought to be immured by their very race. For many writers, black belief in Obeah proved black inferiority and justified both slavery and white colonial domination. The English reading public became generally convinced that Obeah was evil and that blacks were, at worst, devil worshippers or, at best, extremely stupid and credulous. And because books and stories on Obeah continued to promulgate either of the two prevailing perspectives, and sometimes both together until at least the 1950s, theories of black inferiority continue to hold sway in Great Britain today.
Obeah Race And Racism Caribbean Witchcraft In The English Imagination
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Author : Eugenia O'Neal
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Obeah Race And Racism Caribbean Witchcraft In The English Imagination written by Eugenia O'Neal and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with categories.
The Deepest Dye
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Author : Aisha Khan
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2021-07-13
The Deepest Dye written by Aisha Khan and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-13 with Social Science categories.
How colonial categories of race and religion together created identities and hierarchies that today are vehicles for multicultural nationalism and social critique in the Caribbean and its diasporas. When the British Empire abolished slavery, Caribbean sugar plantation owners faced a labor shortage. To solve the problem, they imported indentured ÒcoolieÓ laborers, Hindus and a minority Muslim population from the Indian subcontinent. Indentureship continued from 1838 until its official end in 1917. The Deepest Dye begins on post-emancipation plantations in the West IndiesÑwhere Europeans, Indians, and Africans intermingled for work and worshipÑand ranges to present-day England, North America, and Trinidad, where colonial-era legacies endure in identities and hierarchies that still shape the post-independence Caribbean and its contemporary diasporas. Aisha Khan focuses on the contested religious practices of obeah and Hosay, which are racialized as ÒAfricanÓ and ÒIndianÓ despite the diversity of their participants. Obeah, a catch-all Caribbean term for sub-Saharan healing and divination traditions, was associated in colonial society with magic, slave insurrection, and fraud. This led to anti-obeah laws, some of which still remain in place. Hosay developed in the West Indies from Indian commemorations of the Islamic mourning ritual of Muharram. Although it received certain legal protections, HosayÕs mass gatherings, processions, and mock battles provoked fears of economic disruption and labor unrest that lead to criminalization by colonial powers. The proper observance of Hosay was debated among some historical Muslim communities and continues to be debated now. In a nuanced study of these two practices, Aisha Khan sheds light on power dynamics through religious and racial identities formed in the context of colonialism in the Atlantic world, and shows how today these identities reiterate inequalities as well as reinforce demands for justice and recognition.
Obeah And Other Powers
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Author : Diana Paton
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-13
Obeah And Other Powers written by Diana Paton and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-13 with History categories.
This collection looks at Caribbean religious history from the late 18th century to the present including obeah, vodou, santeria, candomble, and brujeria. The contributors examine how these religions have been affected by many forces including colonialism, law, race, gender, class, state power, media represenation, and the academy.
Experiments With Power
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Author : J. Brent Crosson
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2020-07-10
Experiments With Power written by J. Brent Crosson and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-10 with Religion categories.
In 2011, Trinidad declared a state of emergency. This massive state intervention lasted for 108 days and led to the rounding up of over 7,000 people in areas the state deemed “crime hot spots.” The government justified this action and subsequent police violence on the grounds that these measures were restoring “the rule of law.” In this milieu of expanded policing powers, protests occasioned by police violence against lower-class black people have often garnered little sympathy. But in an improbable turn of events, six officers involved in the shooting of three young people were charged with murder at the height of the state of emergency. To explain this, the host of Crime Watch, the nation’s most popular television show, alleged that there must be a special power at work: obeah. From eighteenth-century slave rebellions to contemporary responses to police brutality, Caribbean methods of problem-solving “spiritual work” have been criminalized under the label of “obeah.” Connected to a justice-making force, obeah remains a crime in many parts of the anglophone Caribbean. In Experiments with Power, J. Brent Crosson addresses the complex question of what obeah is. Redescribing obeah as “science” and “experiments,” Caribbean spiritual workers unsettle the moral and racial foundations of Western categories of religion. Based on more than a decade of conversations with spiritual workers during and after the state of emergency, this book shows how the reframing of religious practice as an experiment with power transforms conceptions of religion and law in modern nation-states.
The Construction And Representation Of Race And Ethnicity In The Caribbean And The World
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Author : Mervyn C. Alleyne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Construction And Representation Of Race And Ethnicity In The Caribbean And The World written by Mervyn C. Alleyne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Social Science categories.
Racism After Race Relations
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Author : Robert Miles
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1993
Racism After Race Relations written by Robert Miles and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
Discusses the shifting definitions of racism and challenges the common conception that racism is experienced exclusively by black people. The book aims to occupy the centre of debate on the sociology of racism and ethnic studies.
The Cultural Politics Of Obeah
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Author : Diana Paton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-08-10
The Cultural Politics Of Obeah written by Diana Paton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-10 with History categories.
A study of the importance of debates about obeah, and state suppression of it, for Caribbean struggles about freedom and citizenship.
Tituba Of Salem Village
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Author : Ann Petry
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2015-09-08
Tituba Of Salem Village written by Ann Petry and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-08 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Young readers “will be carried along by the sheer excitement of the story” of 17th-century slavery and witchcraft by the million-copy selling author (The New York Times). In 1688, Tituba and her husband, John, are sold to a Boston minister and sent to the strange world of Salem, Massachusetts. Rumors about witches are spreading like wildfire throughout the state, filling the heads of Salem’s superstitious, God-fearing residents. When the reverend’s suggestible young daughter, Betsey, starts having fits, the townsfolk declare it to be the devil’s work. Suspicion falls on Tituba, who can read fortunes and spin flax into thread so fine it seems like magic. When suspicion turns to hatred, Tituba finds herself in grave danger. Will she be judged guilty of witchcraft and hanged? Loosely based on accounts of the period and trial transcripts, Ann Petry’s compelling historical novel draws readers into the hysteria of America’s deadly witch hunts.
The Smell Of Slavery
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Author : Andrew Kettler
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-28
The Smell Of Slavery written by Andrew Kettler and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-28 with History categories.
Slavery, capitalism, and colonialism were understood as racially justified through false olfactory perceptions of African bodies throughout the Atlantic World.