Essays about: "transatlantic slave trade"
Found 5 essays containing the words transatlantic slave trade.
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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. 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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4. Transatlantic Literary Triangle: The ‘Africanness’ of Writers of African Origin and Descent
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/LitteraturvetenskapAbstract : Africa has suffered two traumatizing events in history that have helped shape the present day individual, be it on the continent or in the diaspora. First there was the transatlantic slave trade that spanned from the 15th century to the late 19th century and saw the inhuman and forceful transportation of Africans to plantations and homes in the Americas. READ MORE
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5. What Lies at the Core of Slavery? A Study of the Concept of Slavery
University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Slavery - in popular imagination, the word usually conjures up images of the transatlantic slave trade and slavery in the United States. A common belief is that slavery has been abolished and in a legal sense this is correct. However, the practical reality is little changed, i.e. READ MORE
