The Deepest Dye
Subtitle: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Jul 13, 2021
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780674987821
Description: "Aisha Khan examines two cultural phenomena of colonized laborers in the West Indies: the "African" supernatural practice of obeah and the "Indian" mourning festival of Hosay. The British criminalized both, establishing hierarchies through racial and religious identities still relevant to postcolonial power dynamics, as well as justice movements"--
Notes: Source title: The Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World