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Rags: A memoir of home, migration, and African decolonization

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By (author): Maria Isabel Vaz Snia Vaz Borges

A memoir of a mother and daughters return to Cabo Verde reveals the legacies of national liberation, a story of memory and migration, and the psychic and physical landscape that colonialism has wrought.


When Sonia Vaz Borges accompanied her mother, Maria Isabel Vaz, home to Santiago Island, Cabo Verde, it was the first time she experienced the island where her mother and family were born, and where her mother left forty years earlier. As a historian, documentarian, and a Black Cabo Verdean young woman born in Portugal, she booked a trip to a native land shes never been to in order to conduct research on the history of militant resistance to Portuguese colonialism, of the education initiatives of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cabo Verde (PAIGC), and the lessons for freedom available for today.
           What she discovers are lifelong lessons as illuminating as anything her PhD revealed to her. The fragments of memories, episodes, and encounters in Cabo Verde that she assembled in this travel diary reveal an experience of homegoing that is rich with the legacies of national liberation, the story of a Black womans migration during the height of colonial oppression, of separation from family and nation, and memories of an island transformed since Independence, and the psychic and physical landscape that the legacy of colonial rule has wrought. As mother and daughter travel home together for the first time, they embark on a journey that takes them to new places in their relationship to each other, a return and a rediscovery of a place and people imagined and conjured through memory, where history and place blur and where stories are created and shared.
           Ragás is a Cabo Verdean creole word for the space created between the waist and the knees when seated: the lap. Here, it is a place to find nurturing, a place to be embraced, protected, and cared for, a place for reconnection and return to the memories that others carry for you when migration means both leaving and being left behind. See more
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  • Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Aug 2024
  • Publisher: Common Notions
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781945335099

About Maria Isabel VazSnia Vaz Borges

Sónia Vaz Borges is a militant interdisciplinary historian and socialpolitical organizer. She received her PhD in History of Education from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU). She is the author of the book Militant Education Liberation Struggle Consciousness: The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 19631978 (2019). As a result of her research Vaz Borges coauthored the short films Navigating the Pilot School (2016) and Mangrove School (2022). Vaz Borges is also the author of the book Na Pó Di Spéra. Percursos nos Bairros da Estrada Militar de Santa Filomena e da Encosta Nascente (2014) and editor of the Zines Caderno Consciência e Resistência Negra (2007-2011). Vaz Borges is currently an Assistant Professor in the History and Africana Studies Program at Drexel University in Philadelphia (USA). Vaz Borges continues to write on education and liberation struggles and is now working on her concept of the walking archive.Maria Isabel Vaz was born and raised in Cabo Verde in the Santiago Island in the municipality of Santa Catarina. She migrated to Portugal with all her family in 1972 during the colonial occupation in Cape Verde and the PAIGC liberation struggle in Guinea Bissau. In Portugal she worked as a domestic worker where she married and became a mother of five. A humble and caring woman with strong values and beliefs she made sure to transmit her knowledges life experience and social justice principles to her daughters. Gardening and farming are her passions an inheritance brought from her life in the countryside in Cabo Verde. Maria Isabel Vaz is now retired and lives in Amadora Portugal.Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a prison abolitionist and prison scholar. She is the author of Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition and the award-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons Surplus Crisis and Opposition in Globalizing California. Gilmore is the Director of the Center for Place Culture and Politics and professor of geography in Earth and Environmental Sciences at The City University of New York.Craig Gilmore is an organizer with the California Prison Moratorium Project which he cofounded in 1998. He was an editor of Prison Focus and is coauthor with Kevin Pyle of Prison Town in The Real Cost of Prisons Project. He has been active for years in Californians United for a Responsible Budget the No New Jails Coalition and LA Prison Times newspaper. Gilmore was a board member of A New Way of Life Reentry Project in Los Angeles and in 2003 was awarded the Ralph Santiago Abascal Award for Environmental Justice Activism.

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