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Book SynopsisFocuses on the enslavement, middle passage, American experience, and return to Africa of a single cultural group, the Yoruba. Moving beyond descriptions of generic African experiences, this anthology allows students to trace the experiences of one cultural group throughout the cycle of the slave experience in the Americas.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. The Yoruba Diaspora in the Atlantic World: Methodology and Research Matt D. Childs and Toyin Falola
I. The Yoruba Homeland and Diaspora
2. The Diaspora of Yoruba Speakers, 1650 - 1865: Dimensions and Implications David Eltis
3. The Yoruba Factor in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Paul E. Lovejoy
4. The Enslavement of Yoruba Ann O'Hear
II. The Yoruba Diaspora in the Americas
5. Nagô and Mina: The Yoruba Diaspora in Brazil João José Reis and Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian
6. The Yoruba in Cuba: Origins, Identities, and Transformations Michele Reid
7. Africans in a Colony of Creoles: The Yoruba in Colonial Costa Rica Russell Lohse
8. Yoruba in the British Caribbean: A Comparative Perspective on Trinidad and the Bahamas Rosalyn Howard
9. The Influential Yoruba Past in Haiti Kevin Roberts
III. The Cultural Foundations of the Yoruba Diaspora
10. The "Nagôization" Process in Bahian Candomblé Luis Nicolau Parés
11. Santería in Cuba: Tradition and Transformation Christine Ayorinde
12. From Gbe to Yoruba: Ethnic Change and the Mina Nation in Rio de Janeiro Mariza C. Soares
13. Yoruba Family, Gender, and Kinship Roles in New World Slavery Kevin Roberts
14. Revolution and Religion: Yoruba Sacred Music in Socialist Cuba Robin Moore
15. Reclaiming the Past: Yoruba Elements in African American Arts Babatunde Lawal
16. "Yorubaisms" in African American "Speech" Patterns Augustine H. Agwuele
IV. The Return to Yorubaland
17. Yoruba Liberated Slaves Who Returned to West Africa Robin Law
18. The Yoruba Diaspora in Sierra Leone's Krio Society C. Magbaily Fyle
19. Liberated Slaves and Islam in Nineteenth-Century West Africa Gibril R. Cole
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