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Let Spirit Speak!: Cultural Journeys through the African Diaspora

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Vanessa K. Valdés
2012
Published by: State University of New York Press
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Interdisciplinary celebration of the cultural contributions of members of the African diaspora in the Western hemisphere.

Table of Contents

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Cover

pp. c-ii

Title Page, Copyright Page

pp. iii-vi

Contents

pp. vii-viii

Acknowledgments

pp. ix-x

Introduction

pp. xi-xii

Chapter 1: Invocation: Excerpts from Because When God is too Busy: Haiti, me, and The World

pp. 1-6

Chapter 2: From Animal Skin to Oil Drum: African Agency Through the Steelband Movement

pp. 7-12

Chapter 3: When the Past Becomes [the] Present: Remembering and Writing My Own Ancestral Past

pp. 13-24

Chapter 4: Racismo en la Cuba contemporánea: documental RAZA (2008)

pp. 25-30

Chapter 5: Los Ayudados: The Oral History of a Guapetón

pp. 31-38

Chapter 6: Blackness, Music, and (National/Diasporic) Identity in the Colombian Caribbean

pp. 39-50

Chapter 7: Ancestry, Art, and Commodity: María Magdalena Campos-Pons’s My Mother Told Me I Am Chinese Series

pp. 51-56

Chapter 8: A Prescription for Wholeness: Resisting the Discourse of Difficulty to Embrace the Challenge of Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters

pp. 57-66

Chapter 9: Selections from Kohnjehr Woman

pp. 67-70

Chapter 10: Poems

pp. 71-76

Chapter 11: Caribbean Spaces, Transatlantic Spirit: Violence and Spiritual Reimaginings in the Caribbean

pp. 77-86

Chapter 12: Poesía, mujer e identidad afro: La presencia femenina y el yo poético de Tambores en la noche

pp. 87-98

Chapter 13: Alaridos de las Baldías: The Role of AfroColombian Poetry in the Creation of a Black Identity in Colombia

pp. 99-110

Chapter 14: Anne Lescot’s and Laurence Magloire’s Des hommes et des dieux: Queering the Haitian Religious Experience

pp. 111-118

Chapter 15: Beyond the Battlefield of Institutions: Everyday Abolition from the Antebellum South

pp. 119-126

Chapter 16: La autobiografía de la artista en la nada clariceana

pp. 127-134

Chapter 17: Where Do We Go from Here? A Call to Action

pp. 135-136

Contributors

pp. 137-142

Conference Program

pp. 143-146

Index

pp. 147-151
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