ISBN:
9780812238785
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (192 p)
Series Statement:
Rethinking the Americas
Parallel Title:
Print version Black Cosmopolitanism : Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
DDC:
305.89607
Keywords:
African Americans ; Intellectual life
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African Americans ; Race identity
;
Blacks ; Race identity ; West Indies
;
Cosmopolitanism
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Transnationalism
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: The Making of a Race (Man) -- 1 The View from Above: Plácido Through the Eyes of the Cuban Colonial Government and White Abolitionists -- 2 The View from Next Door: Plácido Through Black Abolitionists' Eyes -- Part Two: Both (Race) and (Nation)? -- 3 On Being Black and Cuban: Race, Nation, and Romanticism in the Poetry of Plácido -- 4 "We Intend to Stay Here": The International Shadows in Frederick Douglass's Representations of African American Community -- 5 "More a Haitian Than an American": Frederick Douglass and the Black World Beyond the United States -- Part Three: Negating Nation, Rejecting Race -- 6 A Slave's Cosmopolitanism: Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, and the Geography of Identity -- 7 Disidentification as Identity: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Flight from Blackness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Acknowledgments.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One: The Making of a Race (Man)""; ""1 The View from Above: Plácido Through the Eyes of the Cuban Colonial Government and White Abolitionists""; ""2 The View from Next Door: Plácido Through Black Abolitionists' Eyes""; ""Part Two: Both (Race) and (Nation)?""; ""3 On Being Black and Cuban: Race, Nation, and Romanticism in the Poetry of Plácido""; ""4 "We Intend to Stay Here": The International Shadows in Frederick Douglass's Representations of African American Community""
Description / Table of Contents:
""5 "More a Haitian Than an American": Frederick Douglass and the Black World Beyond the United States""""Part Three: Negating Nation, Rejecting Race""; ""6 A Slave's Cosmopolitanism: Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave, and the Geography of Identity""; ""7 Disidentification as Identity: Juan Francisco Manzano and the Flight from Blackness""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Acknowledgments""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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