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African spirituality
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August Wilson
Author_Catherine A. John
Black community
Blackness
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Cultural resilience
diaspora
Diaspora Consciousness
enslaved Africans
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family structures
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George Floyd
George Lee
Hip Hop lyrics
Igbo
Indigenous knowledge
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National Debate Tournament
Rashid Campbell
Spiritual power
water spirits
Yoruba
Product details
- ISBN 9781478033431
- Weight: 572g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Aug 2026
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In Afroindigenization, Catherine A. John addresses the underbelly of spiritual resilience shaping a range of African diasporic institutions, traditions, and practices. John argues that repressed forms of indigenous African knowledge systems manifest in a myriad of culturally embodied ways in African diaspora spaces and places. From mermaid lore in rural Jamaica to hip-hop trance-induced dance in Los Angeles to the stories of two debaters-turned-social-media-influencers, John shows how the descendants of enslaved Africans express the signs and substance of their afroindigenous power through collective creativity. Drawing from scholars such as VÈvÈ Clark, Hortense Spillers, Dianne M. Stewart, and Sylvia Wynter, Afroindigenization exposes the cultural and spiritual ancestries that lie at the heart of modern Black identities and practices.
Catherine A. John is Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Rhode Island and author of Clear Word and Third Sight: Folk Groundings and Diasporic Consciousness in African Caribbean Writing, published by Duke University Press.
