Becoming African in America
race and nation in the early Black Atlantic
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Word Count
72,750 words, Guess
Page Count
291 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebecomingafricani0000sidb
- ISBN-100195320107
- ISBN-139780195320107
- LibraryThing4067358
- Library of Congress Control Number2007004017
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- OCLC Control Number81861269
- Better World Books9780195320107
- Open LibraryOL22763922M
Classifications
- LCCE
- LCCE185.18.S53 2007
- LCCE185.18 .S53 2007
Description
"In Becoming African in America, James Sidbury reveals how an African identity emerged in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world, tracing the development of "African" from a degrading term connoting savage people to a word that was a source of pride and unity for the diverse victims of the Atlantic slave trade." "Sidbury examines the work of black writers - such as Ignatius Sancho in England and Phillis Wheatley in America - who created a narrative of African identity that took its meaning from the diaspora, a narrative that began with enslavement and the experience of the Middle Passage, allowing people of various ethnic backgrounds to become "African" by virtue of sharing the oppression of slavery."--Jacket.
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