A Map to the Door of No Return
Title | A Map to the Door of No Return PDF eBook |
Author | Dionne Brand |
Publisher | Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2012-08-07 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 038567483X |
A Map to the Door of No Return is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. It is an insightful, sensitive and poetic book of discovery. Drawing on cartography, travels, narratives of childhood in the Caribbean, journeys across the Canadian landscape, African ancestry, histories, politics, philosophies and literature, Dionne Brand sketches the shifting borders of home and nation, the connection to place in Canada and the world beyond. The title, A Map to the Door of No Return, refers to both a place in imagination and a point in history—the Middle Passage. The quest for identity and place has profound meaning and resonance in an age of heterogenous identities. In this exquisitely written and thought-provoking new work, Dionne Brand creates a map of her own art.
Decolonizing Heritage
Title | Decolonizing Heritage PDF eBook |
Author | Ferdinand De Jong |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 311 |
Release | 2022-03-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1009092413 |
Senegal's cultural heritage sites are in many cases remnants of the French empire. This book examines how an independent nation decolonises its colonial heritage, and how slave barracks, colonial museums, and monuments to empire are re-interpreted to imagine a postcolonial future.
The Negro Family
Title | The Negro Family PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Department of Labor. Office of Policy Planning and Research |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 96 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | African American families |
ISBN |
The life and times of the thirty-second President who was reelected four times.
Point of No Return
Title | Point of No Return PDF eBook |
Author | John P. Marquand |
Publisher | Academy Chicago Pub |
Total Pages | 559 |
Release | 1985-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780897331746 |
Since his father was not a financial or social success, Charles Gray was determined to become a prosperous and prestigious business executive
Ouidah
Title | Ouidah PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Law |
Publisher | Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | 458 |
Release | 2005-10-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0821445529 |
Ouidah, an African town in the Republic of Benin, was the principal precolonial commercial center of its region and the second-most-important town of the Dahomey kingdom. It served as a major outlet for the transatlantic slave trade. Between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries, Ouidah was the most important embarkation point for slaves in the region of West Africa known to outsiders as the Slave Coast. This is the first detailed study of the town’s history and of its role in the Atlantic slave trade. Ouidah is a well-documented case study of precolonial urbanism, of the evolution of a merchant community, and in particular of the growth of a group of private traders whose relations with the Dahomian monarchy grew increasingly problematic over time.
The Door of No Return
Title | The Door of No Return PDF eBook |
Author | William St. Clair |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 296 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
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Where the Negroes Are Masters
Title | Where the Negroes Are Masters PDF eBook |
Author | Randy J. Sparks |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2014-01-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674726472 |
Annamaboe--largest slave trading port on the Gold Coast--was home to wily African merchants whose partnerships with Europeans made the town an integral part of Atlantic webs of exchange. Randy Sparks recreates the outpost's feverish bustle and brutality, tracing the entrepreneurs, black and white, who thrived on a lucrative traffic in human beings.