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1. Coming to Voice Through Capoeira : Uncovering Ancestrality and Embodiments of the African Diaspora
University essay fromAbstract : Capoeira is an African diasporic art form that developed in Brazil during the transatlantic slave trade. This research explores the history of Capoeira and its contemporary engagement through an autoethnographic method. It follows the first-hand experience of being a black female researcher and a Capoeirista both in Europe and Brazil. READ MORE
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2. Life after social death : A study of creolisation among enslaved communities in the former Danish West Indies
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : This thesis examines and discusses how creolisation theory has influenced the material culture of enslaved people from former Danish West Indies plantations. The essay contends that creolisation is the theory required to advance slavery studies because it demonstrates how enslaved people created their own identity, belonging, and kept African cultures and customs alive despite being socially dead. READ MORE
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3. Crossing the River : An Example of Black Politics of Resistance
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : Caryl Phillis’s novel Crossing the River tells a story of the African diaspora caused by the slave trade. The novel not only depicts the physical aspect of diasporic life, but also sheds light on the cognitive aspects. READ MORE
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4. The African Presence and Limits of Double Consciousness in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the River
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : Set against the backdrop of the Transatlantic slave trade, Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River can be read as a novel which explores severed family ties and the intertwined relationship between the dominant and the subdued within the African diaspora. Questions concerning “race”, identity and representation can be traced in all the narratives and are also the focus of this essay. READ MORE
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5. DEAD END : The European Movement and Disappearance of Local Traditional African Clothing Designs, Styles, and Cultural Meaning. An Exchange of Cultural Identity.
University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Institutionen TextilhögskolanAbstract : This thesis aims at showcasing the movement of African cultural meaning from Africa to Europe by Europeans in their involvement in the African slave trade as well as the colonization of Africa, which was the imprisonment of the African cultural expression as well as a limitation of its development and further production. The thesis also addresses one of the reason for the global circulation of the European culture, which is the search and achievement of absolute power and control over the minds of its conquests in order to become a dominant culture. READ MORE
