TY - BOOK ID - 33227074 TI - Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies : A Critical Anthology AU - Smith, Cassander L. AU - Jones, Nicholas R. AU - Grier, Miles P. PY - 2018 SN - 3319767860 3319767852 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - African diaspora. KW - Blacks KW - Black identity KW - Blackness (Race identity) KW - Negritude KW - Race identity of blacks KW - Racial identity of blacks KW - Ethnicity KW - Race awareness KW - Black diaspora KW - Diaspora, African KW - Human geography KW - Africans KW - Race identity. KW - Migrations KW - Culture-Study and teaching. KW - Emigration and immigration. KW - Ethnology-Africa. KW - Europe-History-1492-. KW - Latin American literature. KW - Literature, Modern. KW - Cultural Theory. KW - Diaspora. KW - African Culture. KW - History of Early Modern Europe. KW - Latin American/Caribbean Literature. KW - Early Modern/Renaissance Literature. KW - Modern literature KW - Arts, Modern KW - Immigration KW - International migration KW - Migration, International KW - Population geography KW - Assimilation (Sociology) KW - Colonization KW - Culture—Study and teaching. KW - Ethnology—Africa. KW - Europe—History—1492-. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:33227074 AB - Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies brings into conversation two fields—Early Modern Studies and Black Studies—that traditionally have had little to say to each other. This disconnect is the product of current scholarly assumptions about a lack of archival evidence that limits what we can say about those of African descent before modernity. This volume posits that the limitations are not in the archives, but in the methods we have constructed for locating and examining those archives. The essays that make up this volume offer new critical approaches to black African agency and the conceptualization of blackness in early modern literary works, historical documents, material and visual cultures, and performance culture. Ultimately, this critical anthology revises current understandings about racial discourse and the cultural contributions of black Africans in early modernity and in the present across the globe. ER -