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Senegal in pictures / by Streissguth, Thomas,1958-(CARDINAL)370686;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 74-77) and index.Presents a photographic introduction to the land, history, government, economy, people, and culture of the African country of Senegal.Accelerated Reader AR

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The UmuEze Amara Clan and the House of Obafemi / by Odutola, Toyin,1985-artist,author,interviewee.(CARDINAL)856394; Bellorado-Samuels, Joeonna,writer of foreword.(CARDINAL)678318; Hockley, Rujeko,contributor.(CARDINAL)852990; Lang, Melinda,contributor.(CARDINAL)856393; Lockner, Logan,contributor.(CARDINAL)858306; Musser, Amber Jamilla,contributor.(CARDINAL)855503; Raiford, Leigh,contributor.(CARDINAL)280653; Smith, Zadie,contributor.(CARDINAL)351675; Yerebakan, Osman Can,interviewer.(CARDINAL)858308; Rizzoli International Publications.Electa,publisher.(CARDINAL)853915;

Includes bibliographical references (page 247).This extraordinary illustrated story--Toyin Ojih Odutola's best-known body of work--chronicles the private lives of two fictional aristocratic Nigerian families, the UmuEze Amara Clan and the House of Obafemi, if colonialist and slave-trade interventions had never disrupted the country. Rendered life-size in charcoal, pastel, and pencil, Ojih Odutola's figures appear enigmatic and mysterious, set against the artist's larger conceived narrative, highlighting the malleability of identity and assumptions about race, wealth, and class. The UmuEze Amara Clan and the House of Obafemi presents the story of these families in four chapters illustrated and authored by Ojih Odutola, accompanied by the artist's sketches and notes. Also included are several insightful essays on the artist herself by noted writers and critics Zadie Smith, Leigh Raiford, and others. An introduction to the artist's vivid fictionalized world, as well as a reflection on the role of this body of work within her broader practice, this remarkable volume serves as the essential guide to Ojih Odutola's unique form of storytelling.

Subjects: Interviews.; Portraits.; Odutola, Toyin, 1985-; Odutola, Toyin, 1985-; African American women artists; Art, Modern.; Art, Modern; Drawing, American; Figurative art, American; Homosexuality in art.; Nigerians; Nigerians; Upper class in art.; Wealth.;

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A fistful of shells : West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution / by Green, Toby,1974-author.(CARDINAL)537293;

Includes bibliographical references and index."With A Fistful of Shells, Toby Green transforms our view of West and West-Central Africa by reconstructing the world of these kingdoms, which revolved around trade, diplomacy, complex religious beliefs, and the production of art. Green shows how the slave trade led to economic disparities that caused African kingdoms to lose relative political and economic power. The concentration of money in the hands of Atlantic elites in and outside these kingdoms brought about a revolutionary nineteenth century in Africa, parallel to the upheavals then taking place in Europe and America. Yet political fragmentation following the fall of African aristocracies produced radically different results as European colonization took hold. Drawing not just on written histories, but on archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters, Green lays bare the transformations that have shaped world politics and the global economy since the fifteenth century and paints a new and masterful portrait of West Africa, past and present."--Publisher's website.

Subjects: Slave trade;

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Lose your mother : a journey along the Atlantic slave route / by Hartman, Saidiya V.(CARDINAL)205852;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-258) and index.Prologue: The Path of Strangers -- 1 Afrotopia -- 2 Markets and Martyrs -- 3 The Family Romance -- 4 Come, Go Back, Child -- 5 The Tribe of the Middle Passage -- 6 So Many Dungeons -- 7 The Dead Book -- 8 Lose Your Mother -- 9 The Dark Days -- 10 The Famished Road -- 11 Blood Cowries -- 12 Fugitive Dreams.In Lose Your Mother, Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, Hartman reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African-American history. The slave, Hartman observes, is a stranger, one torn from family, home, and country. To lose your mother is to be severed from your kin, to forget your past, and to inhabit the world as an outsider, an alien. There are no known survivors of Hartman's lineage, no relatives in Ghana whom she came hoping to find. She is a stranger in search of strangers, and this fact leads her into intimate engagements with the people she encounters along the way and draws her deeper into the heartland of slavery. She passes through the holding cells of military forts and castles, the ruins of towns and villages devastated by the trade, and the fortified settlements built to repel predatory armies and kidnappers. In artful passages of historical portraiture, she shows us an Akan prince who granted the Portuguese permission to build the first permanent trading fort in West Africa, a girl murdered aboard a slave ship, and a community of fugitives seeking a haven from slave raiders. Book jacket.Includes information on abolition, Atlantic slave trade, castles, children, cowrie shells, Isaac Cruikshank, Ottohab Cugoano, death disease, dungeons, Dutch slave trade, Elmina, Elmina Castle, Europe, female slaves, France, genealogy, Ghana, Gold Coast, Great Britain, Martin Luther King, Jr., male slaves, Kwame Nkrumah, Portugese slave trade, race, racism, rape, ruling class, Salaga, slavery, tourism, United States, violence, etc.

Subjects: Hartman, Saidiya V.; Slave trade; Historic sites;

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It was dark there all the time : Sophia Burthen and the legacy of slavery in Canada / by Hunter, Andrew,1963-author.(CARDINAL)213390;

Includes bibliographical references."'My parents were slaves in New York State. My master's sons-in-law . . . came into the garden where my sister and I were playing among the currant bushes, tied their handkerchiefs over our mouths, carried us to a vessel, put us in the hold, and sailed up the river. I know not how far nor how long -- it was dark there all the time.' These words, recorded by Benjamin Drew in 1855, provide Sophia Burthen's account of her arrival as an enslaved person into what is now Canada sometime in the late 18th century. In It Was Dark There All the Time, writer and curator Andrew Hunter builds on the testimony of Drew's interview to piece together Burthen's life, while reckoning with the legacy of whiteness and colonialism in the recording of her story. In so doing, Hunter demonstrates the role that the slave trade played in pre-Confederation Canada and its continuing impact on contemporary Canadian society. Evocatively written with sharp, incisive observations and illustrated with archival images and contemporary works of art, It Was Dark There All the Time offers a necessary correction to the prevailing perception of Canada as a place unsullied by slavery and its legacy."--

Subjects: Biographies.; Burthen, Sophia.; Enslaved women; Enslaved persons; Slavery; Slave trade; Enslaved persons; Enslaved persons; Freed persons; Imperialism; Postcolonialism;

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Black art : a cultural history / by Powell, Richard J.,1953-author.(CARDINAL)193885;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-340) and index."The African diaspora - a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism - has generated a wide array of artistic achievements, from blues and reggae, to the paintings of the pioneering African American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and video creations of contemporary hip-hop artists. This book concentrates on how these works, often created during times of major social upheaval and transformation, use black culture both as a subject and as context. From musings on "the souls of black folk" in late nineteenth-century art, to questions of racial and cultural identities in performance, media, and computer-assisted arts in the twenty-first century, this book examines the philosophical and social forces that have shaped a black presence in modern and contemporary visual culture. Now updated, this new edition helps us understand better how the first two decades of the twenty-first century have been a transformative moment in which previous assumptions about race, difference, and identity have been irrevocably altered, with art providing a useful lens through which to think about these compelling issues"--Publisher's description.

Subjects: African American art.; Art, Black.;

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Slavery, geography and empire in nineteenth-century marine landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica / by Nelson, Charmaine,author.(CARDINAL)841249; Routledge (Firm),publisher.(CARDINAL)764271;

Includes bibliographical references and index.Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the first in Art History - to juxtapose temperate and tropical slavery. Charmaine A. Nelson explores the central role of geography and its racialized representation as landscape art in imperial conquest. One could easily assume that nineteenth-century Montreal and Jamaica were worlds apart, but through her astute examination of marine landscape art, the author re-connects these two significant British island colonies, sites of colonial ports with profound economic and military value. Through an analysis of prints, illustrated travel books, and maps, the author exposes the fallacy of their disconnection, arguing instead that the separation of these colonies was a retroactive fabrication designed in part to rid Canada of its deeply colonial history as an integral part of Britain's global trading network which enriched the motherland through extensive trade in crops produced by enslaved workers on tropical plantations. The first study to explore James Hakewill's Jamaican landscapes and William Clark's Antiguan genre studies in depth, it also examines the Montreal landscapes of artists including Thomas Davies, Robert Sproule, George Heriot and James Duncan. Breaking new ground, Nelson reveals how gender and race mediated the aesthetic and scientific access of such - mainly white, male - artists. She analyzes this moment of deep political crisis for British slave owners (between the end of the slave trade in 1807 and complete abolition in 1833) who employed visual culture to imagine spaces free of conflict and to alleviate their pervasive anxiety about slave resistance. Nelson explores how vision and cartographic knowledge translated into authority, which allowed colonizers to 'civilize' the terrains of the so-called New World, while belying the oppression of slavery and indigenous displacement--Back cover.

Subjects: Slavery in art.; Landscapes in art.; Imperialism in art.; Art and society; Art and society;

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Africa & Africans / by Bohannan, Paul.(CARDINAL)123148; Curtin, Philip D.(CARDINAL)124766;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-277) and index.Part 1: African Background -- 1: Myths and facts -- 2: African continent -- 3: Mapping Africa -- Part 2: African Institutions -- 4: African arts -- 5: African families -- 6: Land and labor -- 7: African politics and courts -- 8: African trade and markets -- 9: African religion -- Part 3: African History -- 10: Peopling of Africa -- 11: Farms and iron -- 12: Africa in world history -- 13: End of isolation -- 14: Era of the slave trade -- 15: Secondary empires of the pre-colonial century -- 16: Commerce and Islam: the dual revolution in West Africa -- 17: Forms and conditions of conquest -- 18: Colonial era -- 19: Toward independence -- Part 4: Epilogue -- 20: Africa since independence -- Photograph captions and credits -- Further reading -- Index.Product Description: Africa and Africans keeps a watchful eye on what has happened in Africa and on what has happened in the rest of the world that shapes how people look at Africa. The world's perception of Africa is an entanglement of myth and reality-both reflecting and changing with the times. This highly informative yet concise volume, written by two authors intimately familiar with Africa, presents the facts about African society-past and present. Readers wishing to explore Africa's historical events and rich traditions will discover that Africans want to keep what they value in their old way of life as they find themselves in an emerging global culture.

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Africa / by Murray, Jocelyn,1929-(CARDINAL)156834; Sheehan, Sean,1951-(CARDINAL)340544;

Includes bibliographical references (page 92) and index.Presents information on the history and various regions and cultures of Africa.

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Island people : the Caribbean and the world / by Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua,author.(CARDINAL)625510;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-451)."From the moment Columbus gazed out from the Santa Maria's deck in 1492 at what he mistook for an island off Asia, the Caribbean has been subjected to fantasies projected from without by the West, and viewed as a place to be consumed. It stood at the center of the transatlantic slave trade for more than 300 years. Its societies were shaped by mass migrations and forced labor from the 16th century onwards, imposed by European or latterly-American imperial masters. Scattered across a vast arc of islands and in some instances separated by the languages and cultures of their colonizers, the more than 40,000,000 Caribbean people today are countering their imperial history by shaping cultural conversation the world over: through literature, music, art, and religion in an era when cultures everywhere are contending with "rootlessness.""--

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