Beyond Being Koelies And Kantraki

Author : Margriet Fokken
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
ISBN 13 : 9087047215
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Being Koelies and Kantráki written by Margriet Fokken and published by Uitgeverij Verloren. This book was released on 2018 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the self-positioning of Hindostani people in the face of British and Dutch colonial practices. Originally from India and shipped to the Dutch colony of Suriname after the abolition of slavery, the Hindostani served as contract labourers to keep the plantation system afloat from 1873. Central to the book is the perspective of the Hindostani themselves. We travel alongside the Hindostani from the moment they were recruited and their movement through the depots awaiting shipment, their travel experiences, their arrival in Suriname, relocation to plantations, and their dispersal following the end of their contracts, either as city workers, or farmers. All along, the book poses the question of identification: how did Hindostani make sense of themselves, their fellow Hindostani, and Surinamese society? Stereotyped images make way for insight in lived experience of lower and higher caste, Hindus and Muslims, men and women.

Author : Jay B Haviser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315435365
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Re-Genesis written by Jay B Haviser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ripped from motherland and family, ethnically mixed to quell the potential of uprisings, and brutalized by regimes of hard labor, the heart - the spirit - of Africa did not stop beating in the New World. Rather, it survived and has re-emerged; changed by contacts with new cultures and environments, but still part of the continuum of African tradition: an African Re-Genesis. This is the first volume in its field to emphasize the interdisciplinary temporal and geographic comparative research of Archaeology, Anthropology, History and Linguistics to allow us to form unique perspectives on broader trends in the transformation and (re-) emergence of African Diaspora cultures. African Re-Genesis confirms that regardless of discipline, from continental Africa to Europe, the Western Hemisphere and Indian Ocean, all Diaspora research requires a relevance to modern communities and sensitivity to the interplay with contemporary cultural identities. Matters concerning race and cultural diversity, though ostensibly de-fused by the vocabulary of political correctness, remain contentious. Indeed, the topic of racial relations has become to the twenty-first century what sex was to the nineteenth century - something best not discussed in public, and better talked around than confronted directly. African Re-Genesis strikes at the nerve of urgency that the past, present and future globalization of African cultures, is a cornerstone of the entire human experience, and it thus deserves recognition as such.

Author : Michael Heckenberger
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415945981
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ecology of Power written by Michael Heckenberger and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Mark Donnelly
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000220524
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Doing History written by Mark Donnelly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing History bridges the gap between the way history is studied in school or as represented in the media and the way it is studied at university level. History as an academic discipline has dramatically changed in recent decades and has been enhanced by ideas from other disciplines, the influence of postmodernism and historians’ incorporation of their own reflections into their work. Doing History presents the ideas and debates that shape how we ‘do’ history today, covering arguments about the nature of historical knowledge and the function of historical writing, whether we can ever really know what happened in the past, what sources historians depend on, and the relative value of popular and academic histories. This revised edition includes new chapters on public history and activist histories. It looks at global representations of the past across the centuries, and provides up-to-date suggestions for further reading, presenting the reader with a thorough and current introduction to studying history at an academic level as well as a pathway to progress this study further. Clearly structured and accessibly written, it is an essential volume for all students embarking on the study of history.

Author : Marina Carter
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices from Indenture written by Marina Carter and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1996 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fitting in with the emphasis of the series on studying movements of people that have been little researched and written about in the past, this volume focuses on the Indian labor diaspora. The author draws on 19th-century material from Mauritius, the Caribbean, Fiji, Natal, and Reunion, much of it letters of indentured or time-expired laborers and their families, and much of it previously unpublished. Coverage includes the experiences of recruitment and the voyage overseas, the working lives of indentured Indians, personal lives of Indian migrants, and new horizons--the world beyond indenture. Distributed by Books International. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : John Gabriel Stedman
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 080184259X
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stedman's Surinam written by John Gabriel Stedman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1992-03 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This abridgment of the Prices' acclaimed 1988 critical edition is based on Stedman's original, handwritten manuscript, which offers a portrait at considerable variance with the 1796 classic. The unexpurgated text, presented here with extensive notes and commentary, constitutes one of the richest and most evocative accounts ever written of colonial life—and one of the strongest indictments ever to appear against New World slavery.

Author : Richard Price
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226680613
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Evenings in Saramaka written by Richard Price and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-05-07 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the more general context of tale telling by the descendants of Africans throughout the Americas and of recent scholarship in performance studies, these Saramaka tales are presented as a dramatic script. With the help of nearly forty photographs, readers become familiar not only with the characters in folktale-land, but also with the men and women who so imaginatively bring them to life. And because music complements narration in Saramaka just as it does elsewhere in Afro-America, more than fifty songs are presented here in musical notation.

Author : Emmanuel Kofi Agorsah
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom in Black History and Culture written by Emmanuel Kofi Agorsah and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Verene Shepherd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766401214
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maharani's Misery written by Verene Shepherd and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the abolition of slavery in the Caribbean, a concerted effort was made to replace enslaved labour with indentured Indian labour. This is the story of one Indian woman's tragic experience in trying to immigrate to the Caribbean in the 19th century.

Author : Madhavi Kale
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812202422
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragments of Empire written by Madhavi Kale and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833, sugar planters in the Caribbean found themselves facing the prospect of paying working wages to their former slaves. Cheaper labor existed elsewhere in the empire, however, and plantation owners, along with the home and colonial governments, quickly began importing the first of what would eventually be hundreds of thousands of indentured laborers from India. Madhavi Kale draws extensively on the archival materials from the period and argues that imperial administrators sanctioned and authorized distinctly biased accounts of postemancipation labor conditions and participated in devaluing and excluding alternative accounts of slavery. As she does this she highlights the ways in which historians, by relying on these biased sources, have perpetuated the acceptance of a privileged perspective on imperial British history.