Facing up to the past
Subtitle: perspectives on the commemoration of slavery from Africa, the Americas and Europe
By: edited by Gert Oostindie.
Contributors: Oostindie, Gert.
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Kingston, Jamaica
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
Subjects: Slavery -- History.; Slavery -- Caribbean Area -- History.; Slavery -- Netherlands -- History.; Slaves -- Monuments -- Netherlands.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Stony regrets and the pledges for the future / Gert Oostindie; title: The subject of the world / Achille Mbembe; title: Of forts, castles, and silences / Ama Ata Aidoo; title: Freedom, yes!; title: And then what? / Carl Niehaus; title: The slave trade and slavery in the Western Indian Ocean : significant contrasts / Abdul Sheriff; title: The forgotten region : commemorations of slavery in Mauritius and South Africa / Nigel Worden; title: To each his commemoration / Ina Césaire; title: Monuments and silent screamings : a view from Martinique / Richard Price; title: In living memory : the commemoration of slavery in Cuba / Pedro Pérez Sarduy; title: Puerto Rico, slavery, race : faded memories, erased histories / Lowell Fiet; title: The legacy of slavery and social relations in Brazil / Flávio dos Santos Gomes; title: Remembering slavery from nearby : heritage Brazilian style / Livio Sansone; title: Emancipation in the British Caribbean / Hilary Beckles; title: Slavery and the diaspora imagination / Olu Oguibe; title: Remembering slavery in the United States / Allison Blakely; title: Commemorating slavery and abolition in the United States of America / Seymour Drescher; title: Un beau geste / Frank Martinus Arion; title: The long road to a monument / Alex van Stipriaan; title: The Creole Janus face / Ruben Gowricharn; title: African slaves and the Atlantic world / Harry Goulbourne; title: Slavery, truth, and reconciliation / James Walvin; title: A respectable trade / Ratan Vaswani.