African communities in Asia and the Mediterranean
Subtitle: identities between integration and conflict
By: edited by Ehud R. Toledano
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: African diaspora; Ethnic identity; Africans; History; Mediterranean Region
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: African diasporas in Asia and the Mediterranean : a methodological introduction; title: "African diaspora" and "creolity" : confronting the two concepts and their references; title: Female bondage and agency in the Indian Ocean world; title: Diversity of experience and legacies of African slavery in the western Indian Ocean; title: African cavalry guards : a place for the construction of memory, identity and ethnicity; title: Jews in Siddi Janjira; title: "Black face, white heart; long live the king" : the ambiguous identity of the African soldiers in the Dutch East Indies army; title: Unauthorised voyagers across two oceans : Africans, Indians and Aborigines in Australia; title: The stambali of Tunis : its origins and transculturation from a secret-possession cult to ethno-religious and national culture in Ḥusaynid Tunisia; title: Coping with trauma in a new world : cultural response of enslaved Africans in the Ottoman Empire; title: Liberated bodies and saved souls : freed African slave girls and missionaries in Egypt; title: The pupil of the eye : abolitionism, racial unity, and the iconography of enslaved Africans in Baha'i tradition; title: "The Jewish rabbis have stopped protecting us, and the bad witches from home enter" : African migrant workers in Israel trapped between the extended family, money and witchcraft; title: Construction of identity and integration of Turks of African descent.