[PDF] African Identities eBook

Author : Francesca Castaldi
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 35,98 MB
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0252090780

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Choreographies of African Identities traces interconnected interpretative frameworks around and about the National Ballet of Senegal. Using the metaphor of a dancing circle Castaldi's arguments cover the full spectrum of performance, from production to circulation and reception. Castaldi first situates the reader in a North American theater, focusing on the relationship between dancers and audiences as that between black performers and white spectators. She then examines the work of the National Ballet in relation to Léopold Sédar Senghor's Négritude ideology and cultural politics. Finally, the author addresses the circulation of dances in the streets, discotheques, and courtyards of Dakar, drawing attention to women dancers' occupation of the urban landscape.

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 41,55 MB
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 1136830286

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Cutting across countries, genres, and time periods, this volume explores topics ranging from hip hop’s influence on Maasai identity in current day Tanzania to jazz in Bulawayo during the interwar years, using music to tell a larger story about the cultures and societies of Africa.

Author : Michael A. Gomez
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807861715

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The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which African populations exchanged their distinct ethnic identities for one defined primarily by the conception of race. He examines transformations in the politics, social structures, and religions of slave populations through 1830, by which time the contours of a new African American identity had begun to emerge. After discussing specific ethnic groups in Africa, Gomez follows their movement to North America, where they tended to be amassed in recognizable concentrations within individual colonies (and, later, states). For this reason, he argues, it is possible to identify particular ethnic cultural influences and ensuing social formations that heretofore have been considered unrecoverable. Using sources pertaining to the African continent as well as runaway slave advertisements, ex-slave narratives, and folklore, Gomez reveals concrete and specific links between particular African populations and their North American progeny, thereby shedding new light on subsequent African American social formation.

Author : Kadiatu Kanneh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 37,26 MB
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134711808

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This fascinating and well researched study explores the meaning generated by `Africa' and `Blackness' throughout the century. Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic, emerge as signifiers for analysis of modernity, nationhood and racial difference. Kanneh provides detailed readings of a range of literary texts, including novels by: * Toni Morrison * Alice Walker * Gloria Naylor * Ngugi Wa Thiong'o * Chinua Achebe * and V.S. Naipaul. For anyone interested in literature, history, anthropology, political writing, feminist or cultural analysis, this book opens up new areas of thought across disciplines.

Author : Kadiatu Kanneh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,39 MB
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134711794

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This fascinating and well researched study explores the meaning generated by `Africa' and `Blackness' throughout the century. Using literary texts, autobiography, ethnography, and historical documents, African Identities discusses how ideas of Africa as an origin, as a cultural whole, or as a complicated political problematic, emerge as signifiers for analysis of modernity, nationhood and racial difference. Kanneh provides detailed readings of a range of literary texts, including novels by: * Toni Morrison * Alice Walker * Gloria Naylor * Ngugi Wa Thiong'o * Chinua Achebe * and V.S. Naipaul. For anyone interested in literature, history, anthropology, political writing, feminist or cultural analysis, this book opens up new areas of thought across disciplines.

Author : Na'ilah Suad Nasir
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 2011-09-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 0804779147

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As students navigate learning and begin to establish a sense of self, local surroundings can have a major influence on the range of choices they make about who they are and who they want to be. This book investigates how various constructions of identity can influence educational achievement for African American students, both within and outside school. Unique in its attention to the challenges that social and educational stratification pose, as well as to the opportunities that extracurricular activities can offer for African American students' access to learning, this book brings a deeper understanding of the local and fluid aspects of academic, racial, and ethnic identities. Exploring agency, personal sense-making, and social processes, this book contributes a strong new voice to the growing conversation on the relationship between identity and achievement for African American youth.

Author : Fetson Anderson Kalua
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 24,49 MB
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 1527552225

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The book discusses the idea of African identity in the twenty-first century, calling into question and deconstructing any understanding and representation of the idea of African identity as being based exclusively on the notion of ‘Blackness’, or the Black race. In countering such an idea of African identity as a flawed notion, the text propounds the idea of intermediality as a new modality of thinking about the importance of embracing the primacy of tolerance for the difference of identity. The notion of intermediality promotes the need for people of all races across the African continent to embrace the idea of difference as the defining feature of African identity so that the geographical locality called Africa is seen as a vibrant, open, and cosmopolitan continent which is accessible to people of all races and identities.

Author : D.P.S Ahluwalia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 34,19 MB
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351728814

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This title was first published in 2003. Aimed at examining contemporary debates and issues which are at the cutting edge of the social sciences, Pal Ahluwalia and Abebe Zegeye have put together a book on subjects of critical importance to the African condition. A combination of empirical and theoretical materials, this text introduces new perspectives.

Author : Serena Owusua Dankwa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 2021-01-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108495907

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A study of same-sex passion, desire, and intimacy among working-class women who love women in West Africa.

Author : Michelle M. Wright
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822332886

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DIVA theoretical troubling of the assumptions of uniformity in Blackness, comparing writings by and about African diasporic subjects from the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany./div