Introduction
Part One: Social Life and Death
1. Gold Coast Backgrounds
2. Making the Gold Coast Diaspora
3. Slavery, Ethnogenesis, and Social Resurrection
Part Two: Social Resurrection and Empowerment
4. State, Governance, and War
5. Obeah, Oaths, and Ancestral Spirits
6. Women, Regeneration, and Power
Postscript
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Walter C. Rucker, Professor of African American Studies and History at Emory University, is author of The River Flows On: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America.
Provocative and well written, Gold Coast Diasporas is a must-read
for any scholar interested in African identity, the transatlantic
slave trade, and resistance. Africanists and African diaspora
specialists need to engage with this book and with the
methodological contributions that Rucker presents. His
comprehensive approach to African identity and his rigorous
analysis have produced a highly recommended study.
*American Historical Review*
[O]ne of the book's greatest strengths is the ways in which Rucker
painstakingly traces how ethnic labels were appropriated, recast,
and ultimately employed as a means to establish community bonds and
resist oppression. . . . Chapters that focus on the creation of the
Gold Coast diaspora, religion, and women make for a captivating
text that will be of interest to graduate students and specialist
readers. Recommended.
*Choice*
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