Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition

Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic TraditionThis volume demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved and free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian derived celebrations as spaces for autonomous cultural expression, social organization, and political empowerment. Their appropriation of Catholic based celebrations calls into question the long held idea that Africans and their descendants in the diaspora either resignedly accepted Christianity or

ISBN-10 : 1250802857

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he central pursuit of this book is to demonstrate using the Idiroko/Igolo community on the Nigeria/Benin border the link between language and identity

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Winner of the 2023 Soft Skull-Kimbilio Publishing Prize

Including a fully illustrated booklet that describes the traits

Paperback ‏ : ‎ 716 pages

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in the work of Black women writers including Carolyn Rodgers and Audre Lorde and