| Description |
xii, 455 p. : ill. |
| Series |
Blacks in the diaspora |
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Blacks in the diaspora.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-445) and index. |
| Contents |
The Yoruba diaspora in the Atlantic world : methodology and research / Matt D. Childs and Toyin Falola -- The diaspora of Yoruba speakers, 1650-1865 : dimensions and implications / David Eltis -- The Yoruba factor in the trans-Atlantic slave trade / Paul E. Lovejoy -- The enslavement of Yoruba / Ann O'Hear -- Nago and Mina : the Yoruba diaspora in Brazil / Joao Jose Reis and Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian -- The Yoruba in Cuba : origins, identities, and transformations / Michele Reid -- Africans in a colony of creoles : the Yoruba in colonial Costa Rica / Russell Lohse -- Yoruba in the British Caribbean : a comparative perspective on Trinidad and the Bahamas / Rosalyn Howard -- The influential Yoruba past in Haiti / Kevin Roberts -- The "nagoization" process in Bahian candomble / Luis Nicolau Pares -- Santeria in Cuba : tradition and transformation / Christine Ayorinde -- From Gbe to Yoruba : ethnic change and the Mina nation in Rio de Janeiro / Mariza C. Soares -- Yoruba family, gender, and kinship roles in new world slavery / Kevin Roberts -- Revolution and religion : Yoruba sacred music in socialist Cuba / Robin Moore -- Reclaiming the past : Yoruba elements in African American arts / Babatunde Lawal -- "Yorubaisms" in African American "speech" patterns / Augustine H. Agwuele -- Yoruba liberated slaves who returned to West Africa / Robin Law -- The Yoruba diaspora in Sierra Leone's Krio society / C. Magbaily Fyle -- Liberated slaves and Islam in nineteenth-century West Africa / Gibril R. Cole. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Yoruba (African people) -- America -- History.
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Slavery -- America -- History.
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Return migration -- Africa, West.
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African diaspora.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Falola, Toyin.
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Childs, Matt D., 1970-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0253344581 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0253217164 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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