The Yoruba diaspora in the Atlantic world
By: edited by Toyin Falola and Matt D. Childs.
Contributors: Falola, Toyin.; Childs, Matt D., 1970-
Series: Blacks in the diaspora
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
Subjects: Yoruba (African people) -- America -- History.; Slavery -- America -- History.; Return migration -- Africa, West.; African diaspora.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-445) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Yoruba diaspora in the Atlantic world : methodology and research / Matt D. Childs and Toyin Falola; title: The diaspora of Yoruba speakers, 1650-1865 : dimensions and implications / David Eltis; title: The Yoruba factor in the trans-Atlantic slave trade / Paul E. Lovejoy; title: The enslavement of Yoruba / Ann O'Hear; title: Nagô and Mina : the Yoruba diaspora in Brazil / João José Reis and Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian; title: The Yoruba in Cuba : origins, identities, and transformations / Michele Reid; title: Africans in a colony of creoles : the Yoruba in colonial Costa Rica / Russell Lohse; title: Yoruba in the British Caribbean : a comparative perspective on Trinidad and the Bahamas / Rosalyn Howard; title: The influential Yoruba past in Haiti / Kevin Roberts; title: The "nagôization" process in Bahian candomblé / Luis Nicolau Parés; title: Santería in Cuba : tradition and transformation / Christine Ayorinde; title: From Gbe to Yoruba : ethnic change and the Mina nation in Rio de Janeiro / Mariza C. Soares; title: Yoruba family, gender, and kinship roles in new world slavery / Kevin Roberts; title: Revolution and religion : Yoruba sacred music in socialist Cuba / Robin Moore; title: Reclaiming the past : Yoruba elements in African American arts / Babatunde Lawal; title: "Yorubaisms" in African American "speech" patterns / Augustine H. Agwuele; title: Yoruba liberated slaves who returned to West Africa / Robin Law; title: The Yoruba diaspora in Sierra Leone's Krio society / C. Magbaily Fyle; title: Liberated slaves and Islam in nineteenth-century West Africa / Gibril R. Cole.