1st Edition

Black Resistance in the Americas

Edited By D.A. Dunkley, Stephanie Shonekan Copyright 2019
    162 Pages
    by Routledge

    162 Pages
    by Routledge

    All across the United States, in the last few years, there has been a resurgence of Black protest against structural racism and other forms of racial injustice. Black Resistance in the Americas draws attention to this renewed energy and to how this theme of resistance intersects with other communities of Black people around the world. This edited collection examines in-depth stories of resistance against slavery; narratives of resistance in African American, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-Latin American literature; resistance in politics, education, religion, music, dance, and film, exploring a range of new perspectives from established and emerging researchers on Black communities. The chapters in this pivotal book discuss some of the mechanisms that Black communities have used to resist bondage, domination, disempowerment, inequality, and injustices resulting from their encounters with the West, from colonization to forced migration.

    List of Figures

    Acknowledgements

    List of Contributors

    Introduction

    D.A. DUNKLEY

    SECTION 1

    Race, Nation, and Resistance in Brazil and The Caribbean

    1. Resistance and the Evaporation of Masters’ Authority: Two Brazilian Cases
    2. KARL MONSMA

    3. Rastafari: Race and Spirituality
    4. D.A. DUNKLEY

    5. Birth and Death of a Creole Nation
    6. RAYMOND RAMCHARITAR

    7. Black Man’s Cry in the Babylon System: A Comparative Analysis of Fela Kuti and Bob Marley
    8. STEPHANIE SHONEKAN

    9. On the Wings: Muralism as Feminist Political Praxis by Afro-Puerto Rican Women
    10. BETHZABETH COLÓN-PIZZINI

    11. A Geração Tombamento: Black Empowerment through Aesthetics in Salvador da Bahia
    12. JOSHUA REASON

    13. English Language Hegemony and STEM Education in the Caribbean
    14. WILTON LODGE

      SECTION 2

      African American Narratives of Resistance

    15. "No Scheme More Monstrous Could Have Been Invented": Slave Election Ceremonies and the New York Slave Conspiracy of 1741
    16. LAWRENCE CELANI

    17. Anna Julia Cooper’s Quintessential Resistance in the Early Pan-Africanist Voice of Women
    18. APRIL LANGLEY

    19. Unlikely Agents of Change: Desegregation at the University of Missouri
    20. MARY BETH BROWN

    21. Rewriting the Bible: The Jesus Figure in Black Atlantic Women’s Literature
    22. AURÉLIA MOUZET

    23. Big Chief: The Black Indian Tradition of New Orleans
    24. SASCHA (ALEXANDRA) JUST

    25. Black Nationalism and the Presidency of Donald Trump

    STEPHEN C.W. GRAVES

    Conclusion

    STEPHANIE SHONEKAN

    Index

    Biography

    D.A. Dunkley is Assistant Professor in the Department of Black Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia.

    Stephanie Shonekan is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Black Studies, University of Missouri, Columbia.

    "A valuable contribution to the current discussion on race and structural racism in both the United States and the Americas." --Cedric D. Burrows, Marquette University