Africa and Florida
Africa in Florida
African American culture
African immigrants
African suffrage
Amanda Carlson
American history
American settlement
art
Back to Africa movement
Black nationalism
Black Nationalist Movement
black unity
built environments
Caribbean
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civil rights
colonial ambitions
cultural geography
cultural migration
diaspora
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ethnic groups
ethnic identities
Florida history
Florida immigrants
history
homeland
interdisciplinary
international boundaries
maroon communities
material culture
Miami
migrations of Africans
Old South
Orlando
power dynamics
purposeful retention
racial identities
resist slavery
ritual associations
Robin Poynor
slave trade
Tampa
Product details
- ISBN 9780813049663
- Weight: 1542g
- Dimensions: 175 x 251mm
- Publication Date: 03 Feb 2015
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Over the course of centuries, recent immigrants from numerous countries in contemporary Africa have influenced the Sunshine State’s history and culture. Through a critical evaluation of the influences and effects of the numerous African and African-influenced cultures that have been a part of the state’s history, this collection of essays and art explores how Florida both shapes and is shaped by the multiple African diasporas that move through it. Africa in Florida challenges the way American history and southern studies have characterized African contributions to the development of the United States by showing how Africans, both free and enslaved, asserted themselves as explorers, farmers, slave owners, artists, and more.
Amanda B. Carlson, assistant professor of art history at the University of Hartford, USA, is the author of Converging Territories.
Robin Poynor, professor of art history at the University of Florida, USA,is the author of African Art at the Harn Museum: Spirit Eyes, Human Hands and coauthor of A History of Art in Africa and Kongo across the Waters.
Robin Poynor, professor of art history at the University of Florida, USA,is the author of African Art at the Harn Museum: Spirit Eyes, Human Hands and coauthor of A History of Art in Africa and Kongo across the Waters.
