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Africa in Florida : five hundred years of African presence in the Sunshine State
Title
Africa in Florida : five hundred years of African presence in the Sunshine State / edited by Amanda B. Carlson and Robin Poynor ; foreword by Michael Gannon.
ISBN
9780813044576 (alk. paper)
081304457X (alk. paper)
Published
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2014.
Physical Description
xviii, 462 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 26 cm
Summary
This collection of essays encourages a critical evaluation of the concept of "Florida" as a cultural and geographical entity and the influences and effects of the numerous African and Africa American-influenced cultures.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 03, 2014
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Part I: Introducing Africa in Florida
Mapping Africa in Florida: into the lushness of history / Amanda Carlson with Robin Poynor
An overview of Florida's black past / Nathaniel Millett
Cross the water / Adrian Castro
A conversation about "cross the water" / Amanda Carlson and Adrian Castro
Gordon Bleach: a portfolio / Gordon Bleach
Gordon Bleach: home can always be arranged / Amanda Carlson
Part II: Seeking freedom in and out of Florida: slaves and maroons / African ethnic groups in Colonial Florida / Jane Landers
African influences on Seminole beadwork / Thomas E. LaRose
Black towns of the Seminole Indians: Florida's maroon communities / Rosalyn Howard
From Florida to Veracruz: the foundation of San Carlos Chachalacas / Sagrario Cruz-Carretero
Slave refuge and gateway: David B. Mitchell and the paradox of the Florida frontier / Andrew k. frank
The Kingsley Community: beyond the plantation / Antoinette T. Jackson
Part III: Forging new identities: African American culture in Florida
Florida's African connections in the nineteenth century / Canter Brown Jr. and Larry Eugene Rivers
Signs, symbols, and shells: African American cemeteries in Florida / Kara Ann Morrow
Mother Laura Adorkor Kofi: the female Marcus Garvey / Vibert White Jr
Barbecuing the diaspora: jerked pig and roast hog in the writings of Zora Neale Hurston / Andrew Warnes
Ade Rossman's Zora Neale Hurston series: living Africa under the Florida sun / Robin Poynor
Part IV: Connecting across the Caribbean
Abakuá communities in Florida: members of the Cuban brotherhood in exile / Ivor L. Miller
Crowning the Orisha: a Lucumi art in South Florida / Joseph M. Murphy
The spirit(s) of African religion in Miami / Terry Rey
Part V: (Re)making Africa in Florida
Carver Baba Onabamiero Ogunleye and the sacred space of the Ifalola compound / Robin Poynor and Ade Ofunniyin
Three Lyawos: a Transatlantic ?rì{sh}¿ initiation / Ade Ofunniyin
The sacred space of Ola Olu: a neo-Yoruba site near Crescent City, Florida / Robin Poynor
Igbo masquerades in the Sunshine State / Amanda Carlson
African attractions: Florida tourism gone wild //- Amanda Carlson.
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