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Brazilian-African diaspora in Ghana [electronic resource] :the Tabom, slavery, dissonance of memory, identity and locating home / Kwame Essien.

By: Essien, Kwame [author.].
Contributor(s): Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Ruth Simms Hamilton African diaspora series: ; UPCC book collections on Project MUSE: Publisher: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2016. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781609175047; 1609175042.Subject(s): Children of immigrants -- Ghana -- History | Africans -- Brazil -- Emigration and immigration -- History | Immigrants -- Ghana -- History | Freedmen -- Ghana -- History | Ghana -- Colonial influence | Ghana -- Emigration and immigration -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 966.700496081 Online resources: Full text available:
Contents:
Reverse diaspora: dissonance of memory, voyages of hope and degrees of return -- Historicizing the returnee presence in Gã Mã -- The social history of Gã Mã (Accra), colonialism, and their impact on the Brazilian-African diaspora -- The evolution of land in Gã Mã and Brazilian-African diaspora: paradox of freedom and the birth of conflicts -- Escaping slavery into colonialism and squabbles: how colonial projects and internal disputes threatened Brazilian land/diaspora -- Brazilians together, Brazilians apart: the "family trees" and the process of becoming Gã -- (Re) creating Brazilian slavery in an enabling environment -- Contributions by the Brazilian-Africans and the Tabom -- "Fading" diaspora and memory: how the Brazilian government and the Tabom are preserving Brazil House and crisscrossing the Atlantic in full circle -- Epilogue: telescoping Lula's unfulfilled promise and implications for the Tabom's visit to Brazil.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reverse diaspora: dissonance of memory, voyages of hope and degrees of return -- Historicizing the returnee presence in Gã Mã -- The social history of Gã Mã (Accra), colonialism, and their impact on the Brazilian-African diaspora -- The evolution of land in Gã Mã and Brazilian-African diaspora: paradox of freedom and the birth of conflicts -- Escaping slavery into colonialism and squabbles: how colonial projects and internal disputes threatened Brazilian land/diaspora -- Brazilians together, Brazilians apart: the "family trees" and the process of becoming Gã -- (Re) creating Brazilian slavery in an enabling environment -- Contributions by the Brazilian-Africans and the Tabom -- "Fading" diaspora and memory: how the Brazilian government and the Tabom are preserving Brazil House and crisscrossing the Atlantic in full circle -- Epilogue: telescoping Lula's unfulfilled promise and implications for the Tabom's visit to Brazil.

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