{"product_id":"gendering-the-african-diaspora-9780253221537","title":"Gendering the African Diaspora","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIdentity, race, and social networks in the African diaspora\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[T]his is a strong and enjoyable contribution to deepen our understanding of complex gendered processes, serving as an antidote to studies of diaspora that 'obscure ideas of class and nation [and] gender as well'... and an antidote to accounts which present women too readily as victims.\" —Leeds African Studies Bulletin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In foregrounding women's changing forms of engagement during their border-crossing encounters, we also gain important knowledge about both changing gender ideologies and changing politics, policies, and political movements across the African diaspora at given historical periods. This is a critically important and interesting addition not only to diaspora studies, but also to our general knowledge about gender roles in the Caribbean and hinterland Nigeria.\" —Constance Sutton, New York University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This collection... strengthens the significance of understanding the African diaspora across time, and provides a model for studying other diasporas as well.\" —Constance Sutton, New York University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eA Note on the Structure of the Volume\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 1. Africa in the Caribbean Imagination\u003cbr\u003e 1. Of Laughter and Kola Nuts; or, What Does Africa Have to Do with the African Diaspora? \/ Faith Lois Smith\u003cbr\u003e 2. From Africa to \"The Islands\": New World Voyages in the Fiction of Maryse Condé and Paule Marshall \/ Anthea Morrison\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 2. Race, Gender, and Agency in the Shadow of Slavery\u003cbr\u003e 3. Mary Rose: \"White\" African Jamaican Woman? Race and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica \/ Linda L. Sturtz\u003cbr\u003e 4. Trading Places: Market Negotiations in Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands \/ Antonia MacDonald-Smythe\u003cbr\u003e 5. Blacks in the White Imagination: Race in the Investigation of Rape on Nineteenth-Century Emigrant Ships to the Colonial Caribbean \/ Verene A. Shepherd\u003cbr\u003e 6. Maria Jones of Africa, St. Vincent, and Trinidad \/ Brinsley Samaroo\u003cbr\u003e 7. Slavery, Marriage, and Gender Relations in Eastern Yorubaland, 18751920 \/ Olatunji Ojo\u003cbr\u003e 8. On Equal\/Unequal Footing with Men: Diaspora Linkages and Issues of Gender and Education Policy in Barbados, 18751945 \/ Janice Mayers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart 3. Building Diaspora in the Web of Empire\u003cbr\u003e 9. Amy Ashwood Garvey and the Nigerian Progress Union \/ Hakim Adi\u003cbr\u003e 10. \"Crack Kernels, Crack Hitler\": Export Production Drive and Igbo Women during the Second World War \/ Gloria Chuku\u003cbr\u003e 11. Intersections: Nigerian Episodes in the Careers of Three West Indian Women \/ LaRay Denzer\u003cbr\u003e 12. Immigrant Voices in Cyberspace: Spinning Continental and Diasporan Africans into the World Wide Web \/ Mojúbàolú Olúfúnké Okome\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400662327639,"sku":"9780253221537","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253221537.jpg?v=1730471236","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gendering-the-african-diaspora-9780253221537","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}