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22. From Legba to Papa Labas: New World Metaphysical Self/Re-Fashioning in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo
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written by Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure, 1961-; edited by Ali A. Mazrui, 1933-2014, Carole Boyce Davies, fl. 1990 and Isidore Okpewho, 1941-2016; in The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World IdentitiesThe African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities (First paperback edition) (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001, originally published 1999), 350-366
The African Diaspora contributes to the debate between those who believe that the African origin of blacks in Western society is central to their identity and outlook and those who deny that proposition.Contributors include Niyi Afolabi, Adetayo Alabi, Celia M. Azevedo, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Eliana Guerreiro Ramo...
written by Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure, 1961-; edited by Ali A. Mazrui, 1933-2014, Carole Boyce Davies, fl. 1990 and Isidore Okpewho, 1941-2016; in The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World IdentitiesThe African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities (First paperback edition) (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2001, originally published 1999), 350-366
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4 If You Aren’t Careful, You don’t Know Where You Will End Up!
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written by Daniel Reed, 1963-; in Abidjan USA: Music, Dance, and Mobility in the Lives of Four Ivorian Immigrants, African Expressive Cultures (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016, originally published 2016), 91-128
Daniel B. Reed integrates individual stories with the study of performance to understand the forces of diaspora and mobility in the lives of musicians, dancers, and mask performers originally from Côte d'Ivoire who now live in the United States. Through the lives of four Ivorian performers, Reed finds that dance...
written by Daniel Reed, 1963-; in Abidjan USA: Music, Dance, and Mobility in the Lives of Four Ivorian Immigrants, African Expressive Cultures (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2016, originally published 2016), 91-128
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Africa's Ogun: Old World and New (Second Expanded Edition)
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edited by Sandra T. Barnes, 1935- (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997, originally published 1989), 413 page(s)
The second edition of this landmark work is enhanced by new chapters on Ogun worship in the New World. From reviews of the first edition:... an ethnographically rich contribution to the historical understanding of West African culture, as well as an exploration of the continued vitality of that culture in the chan...
edited by Sandra T. Barnes, 1935- (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997, originally published 1989), 413 page(s)
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