No More, No More

by Walker, Daniel E.

• ISBN13: 9780816643271
• ISBN10: 081664327X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-16
• Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr

Summary

However urban slave societies might have differed from their rural counterparts, they still relied on a concerted assault on the psychological, social, and cultural identity of their African-descended inhabitants to maintain power and control. This ambitious book looks at how people of African descent in two such societies - Havana and New Orleans in the nineteenth century - created and maintained their own forms of cultural resistance to the slave regime's assault and, in the process, put forth autonomous views of self and the social landscape.

Author Biography

Daniel E. Walker is founding director of the Center for History, Media, and the Arts, a division of the Black Voice Foundation.

Table of Contents

Introduction	vii
El Dia de Reyes and Congo Square: Links to Africa and the Americas	1	(18)
Defining Space: Social Control and Public Space	19	(40)
Regulating Domesticity: The Fight for the Family	59	(46)
Imagining the African/Imagining Blackness	105	(28)
Negotiating Racial Hierarchies: The Threat of Unity	133	(16)
Conclusion	149	(4)
Acknowledgments	153	(4)
Notes	157	(30)
Index	187