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Le Dictionnaire des gens de couleur porte sur une population qui, à ce jour, n'a été abordée que par la question de la traite négrière. Or, c’est quelque 15 000 hommes et femmes qui, entre les Grandes Découvertes et la Révolution, ont été amenés dans le royaume pour servir les élites aristocratiques et marchandes. Présentées par régions, les 3087 notices du présent volume, qui porte sur Paris et son bassin, sont le fruit de recherches méticuleusement menées dans les fonds d'archives nationales - anciennes colonies, Amirauté de France – ainsi que dans les fonds des grandes villes portuaires comme Le Havre, Nantes et Bordeaux - registres d’armement et de désarmement des navires, registres paroissiaux. Au-delà de l'inventaire, le Dictionnaire des gens de couleur retrace l'histoire d'une partie de la société à travers les itinéraires, les passages des capitaines négriers aux propriétaires citadins, l’insertion par le biais du mariage ou encore des destinés exceptionnelles– celles d’un chevalier de Saint-Georges ou d’un général Dumas, qui ont à la faveur de talents reconnus pu atteindre la notoriété

Blacks --- Africans --- Indians --- Racially mixed people --- Biography --- Dictionaries --- History --- --Africain --- --Indien --- --Mixité raciale --- Noirs --- French --- Biographies --- Dictionnaires français --- Histoire --- --Biographie --- --prosopographie --- --Biography --- Black people --- French. --- History. --- Blacks - Biography --- Blacks - Dictionaries --- Africans - France - Biography --- Indians - Biography - Dictionaries --- Racially mixed people - Biography --- Biographie --- Africain --- Indien --- Mixité raciale --- Blacks - France, Northern - Biography - Dictionaries --- Blacks - France, Northern - History

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In Listening for Africa David F. Garcia explores how a diverse group of musicians, dancers, academics, and activists engaged with the idea of black music and dance’s African origins between the 1930s and 1950s. Garcia examines the work of figures ranging from Melville J. Herskovits, Katherine Dunham, and Asadata Dafora to Duke Ellington, Dámaso Pérez Prado, and others who believed that linking black music and dance with Africa and nature would help realize modernity’s promises of freedom in the face of fascism and racism in Europe and the Americas, colonialism in Africa, and the nuclear threat at the start of the Cold War. In analyzing their work, Garcia traces how such attempts to link black music and dance to Africa unintentionally reinforced the binary relationships between the West and Africa, white and black, the modern and the primitive, science and magic, and rural and urban. It was, Garcia demonstrates, modernity’s determinations of unraced, heteronormative, and productive bodies, and of scientific truth that helped defer the realization of individual and political freedom in the world.

African Americans --- Blacks --- Dance music --- Music --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- History and criticism. --- Black persons --- Black people

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Charting a homeward-bound voyage from Bombay to London aboard a sailing ship, 'The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'' (1897) captured the late-Victorian era's maritime obsession and identified the strikingly original talent of Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) as a sea writer in what has proved to be a landmark of sea literature. The Introduction situates the novel in Conrad's career and traces its origins and reception. Explanatory notes illuminate literary and historical references, identify real-life places and indicate Conrad's sources and influences. The essay on the text and the apparatus lay out the history of the work's composition and publication, and detail interventions by Conrad's typists, compositors and editors. Also included are notes explaining literary and historical references, a glossary of nautical terms, illustrations, including maps and pictures of early drafts, and appendixes. This edition of 'The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'' presents the novel and its preface in forms more authoritative than any so far printed, and restores a text that has circulated in defective forms since its original publication.

West Indians --- Tuberculosis --- Terminally ill --- Ocean travel --- Blacks --- Patients --- London (England) --- Black persons --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Black people

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"A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828-93) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father's dying wish: that he should leave his home in South Carolina for a new life in Africa. He traveled first to Liberia, then with Southern Baptist missionaries to "Yoruba country." Over the next forty years in today's southwestern Nigeria, Vaughan was taken captive, served as a military sharpshooter, built and re-built a livelihood, led a revolt against white racism, and founded a family of activists"--

Back to Africa movement. --- African Americans --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Colonization --- Vaughan, James Churchwill, --- Black people --- AFRICAN AMERICANS --- NIGERIA --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY

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Storytelling is one of the oldest, yet most provocative human art forms. It allows us to learn through the illustration and presentation of events as they happened in real time, through the words of those who participated, allowing the reader to understand and recognize the unvarnished truth. As a means of education and learning, it is innately valuable. Speaking of race and racism, it allows us to underscore our values and principles of social justice. It allows the participants to express their insights and knowledge through their actual experiences. The author has done just that with Race, Politics, and Basketball – a fascinating story of race, racism, politics, education, and inequality in the early 1970s, told through the voices of those who were there, who witnessed it and were a part of it. It provides the juxtaposition of good and decent white kids with an unparalleled mentor who kept them on the straight and narrow, against good and decent Black and Cape Verdean kids who were forced to face the daily forces of inequality and racial unrest each and every day. The summer of 1970 was immensely educational for all who experienced it. The Vietnam War, the civil rights movements, Black Panthers, a long, dreary recession with high unemployment – all explained through the voices of white and Black kids and adults who were there, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, living through it, and navigating the ebbs and fl ows of their daily lives. In the middle of it all, a 17 year old Cape Verdean kid, standing outside a club in the city’s West End, during a period of unrest, was gunned down by three white kids from the suburbs. They didn’t even know him. To top it off, they were all acquitted at trial, despite the fact that the guy who shot the gun confessed to it. The book tells a fascinating story of inequality, race, and politics that can help us understand the struggles that we are still going through today, as we try to understand and reconcile our differences, and treat everyone as equals. Anyone interested in the issue of race and racism in America today should read this story. Gerry Kavanaugh is the Senior Vice Chancellor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He was the Chief of Staff to Senator Edward M. Kennedy in Washington, DC, and now lives in New Bedford with his wife, Colleen.

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