WorldCat Linked Data Explorer

Turtle N-Triple JSON-LD RDF/XML HTML Contact Us Home

http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/285781261

Becoming African in America : race and nation in the early Black Atlantic

Open All Close All

type

about

http://schema.org/about

author

contributor

creator

description

http://schema.org/description

  • "The first slaves imported to America did not see themselves as "African" but rather as Temne, Igbo, or Yoruban. 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. In this wide-ranging work, Sidbury first 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."

genre

http://schema.org/genre

  • "Electronic resource"
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en
  • "Criticism, interpretation, etc"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Llibres electrònics"
  • "History"@en
  • "History"

name

http://schema.org/name

  • "Becoming African in America Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic"
  • "Becoming African in America : race and nation in the early Black Atlantic"
  • "Becoming African in America : race and nation in the early Black Atlantic"@en
  • "Becoming African in America : Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic"
  • "Becoming African in America race and nation in the early Black Atlantic"@en
  • "Becoming African in America race and nation in the early Black Atlantic"
  • "Becoming African in America : race and nation in early Black Atlantic"@en

workExample