The masters and the slaves
Subtitle: plantation relations and mestizaje in American imaginaries
By: edited by Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond.
Contributors: Isfahani-Hammond, Alexandra.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Miscegenation -- America.; Hybridity (Social sciences) -- Caribbean Area.; Postcolonialism -- Caribbean Area.; Mestizaje.; Racially mixed people -- America.; Slavery -- America.; United States -- Race relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Introduction : Who were the masters in the Americas? / Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond; value: The sugar daddy : Gilberto Freyre and the white man's love for Blacks / César Braga-Pinto; value: Writing Brazilian culture / Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond; value: Authority's shadowy double : Thomas Jefferson and the architecture of illegitimacy / Helena Holgersson-Shorter; value: Race, nation, and the symbolics of servitude in Haitian noirisme / Valerie Kaussen; value: Fanon as "metrocolonial" flaneur in the Caribbean post-plantation/Algerian colonial city / Nalini Natarajan; value: From the tropics : cultural subjectivity and politics in Gilberto Freyre / Jossianna Arroyo; value: Hybridity and mestizaje : sincretism or subversive complicity? Subalternity from the perspective of the coloniality of power / Ramón Grosfoguel; value: The rhythm of Macumba : Lívio Abramo's engagement with Afro-Brazilian culture / Luiza Franco Moreira; value: Blood, memory, and nation : massacre and mourning in Edwidge Danticat's The farming of bones / Shreerekha Subramanian.