ISBN:
9781541619678
,
1541619676
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 291 Seiten
,
25 cm
Edition:
First edition
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.89604
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Africans History
;
Blacks History
;
Schwarze
;
Europe Civilization
;
African influences
;
Europa
;
HISTORY
;
Africa
;
General
;
HISTORY
;
Women
;
NON-CLASSIFIABLE
;
Africans
;
Blacks
;
Civilization ; African influences
;
History
;
Europe
;
History / Africa
;
History / Africa
;
Europa
;
Schwarze
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Introduction --Early encounters: from pioneers to African Romans --Black Mediterraneans: slavery and the Renaissance --The transatlantic slave trade and the invention of race --Neither here nor there: dual heritages and gender roles --Fleeting memories: colonial America and forgotten figures --Claiming a past, navigating the present --Identity and liberation: African Europeans today --Epilogue.
Abstract:
"A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent. Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as "Africans" and those called "Europeans." She gives equal attention to the most prominent figures--like Alessandro de Medici, the first duke of Florence thought to have been born to a free African woman in a Roman village--and the untold stories--like the lives of dual-heritage families in Europe's coastal trading towns. African Europeans is a landmark celebration of this integral, vibrantly complex slice of European history, and will redefine the field for years to come."--Amazon
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-268) and index
