Africa and the African Diaspora: Cultural Adaptation and Resistance

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Africa and the African Diaspora is the outcome of a symposium held atPortland State University in Portland, Oregon (February 2002), entitled “Symposium on Freedom in Black History,” designed to celebrate Black History Month. The major themes of the conference were how Africans both at home on the continent and dispersed abroad, often by forces beyond their control, reacted to oppression and subjugation in seeking freedom from slavery, colonialism, and discrimination. The volume documents the many forms that oppression has taken, the many forms that resistance has taken, and the cultural developments that have allowed Africans to adapt to the new and changing economic, social and environmental conditions to win back their freedom. Oppressive strategies as divide-and-rule could be based on any one of a number of features, such as skin color, place of origin, culture, or social or economic status. People drawn into the vortex of the Atlantic trade and funneled into the sugar fields, the swampy rice lands or the cotton, coffee or tobacco plantations of the new world and elsewhere, had no alternative but to risk their lives for freedom. The plantation provided the context for the dehumanization of disadvantaged groups subjected to exhausting work, frequent punishment and personal injustice of every kind,

This book demonstrates that the history and interpretation of these struggles of the oppressed peoples to free themselves have not received proportionate attention and analysis, as have other aspects of that history.

 

 

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Defining the African continent
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Table 12
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African kinship and ethnicity
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Evidence
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Linguistic ramifications of
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Freedom and resistance in the work of Bob Marley
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Oppression and the struggle for freedom in the northern Volta
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Prison life for captured Maroons in Colonial
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Freedom geography and Maroon military strategies
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Slavery in Africa and in
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The necessity of forgiveness in the struggle for freedom from
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AfricanAmerican identity and academic achievement
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Avenues of empowerment road rehabilitation by rural women
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ENDNOTES
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Africa and the African Diaspora: Cultural Adaptation and Resistance
Emmanuel Kofi Agorsah,George Tucker Childs
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G. Tucker Childs, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley), professor of Applied Linguistics at PSU, and co-editor of the volume, has published extensively in the areas of African languages, sociolinguistics, pidgins and Creoles of Africa and the African Diaspora. Dr. Childs has researched extensively on African languages living and interacting with different ethnic groups. Like many young Americans in the 1960s he became interested in Africa through a concern for civil rights and the Black Power Movements in Africa and the African Diaspora. These concerns led him into the United States Peace Corps Volunteer program for service in Africa. Assigned specifically to Liberia, he elected to go to the interior to work with the rural instead of urban communities. He would soon find out that even the resident pidgin, Liberian English, did not help much in understanding the residents who spoke a language he did not know. Learn an African language as a Peace Corps volunteer sensitized him to the importance of language. That encounter finally marked the beginning of his career in linguistics. His research interest led him to travel extensively in Africa, including his longish stints in West Africa, East Africa and southern Africa as his interest and knowledge grew. His most recent book, An Introduction to African Languages (2003) is something of a recapitulation and summary of those experiences and is a popular text for many educational institutions as both text and reference volume. Dr. Child's major interest lies in documenting, with the view to rescuing, disappearing in West African languages. Professor Childs returns to Africa regularly for his research and is currently conducting research on Mmani, a dying African language spoken on the West African coast of southeastern Guinea-Conakry.

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ΤίτλοςAfrica and the African Diaspora: Cultural Adaptation and Resistance
ΣυγγραφέαςE. Kofi Agorsah and G. Tucker Childs
ΕκδότηςAuthorHouse, 2005
ISBN1452040141, 9781452040141
Μέγεθος332 σελίδες
  
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