Africa in Florida : five hundred years of African presence in the Sunshine State

Publication

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Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Africa in Florida : five hundred years of African presence in the Sunshine State

Entry/Object ID

Library.874

Description

xviii, 462 pages : ill. (chiefly color) ; 26 cm This collection of essays encourages a critical evaluation of the concept of "Florida" as a cultural and geographical entity and the influences and effects of the numerous African and Africa American-influenced cultures. Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-436) and index. Contents: Mapping Africa in Florida: into the lushness of history -- An overview of Florida's black past -- Cross the water -- A conversation about "cross the water"-- Gordon Bleach: a portfolio -- Gordon Bleach: home can always be arranged -- African ethnic groups in Colonial Florida -- African influences on Seminole beadwork -- Black towns of the Seminole Indians: Florida's maroon communities -- From Florida to Veracruz: the foundation of San Carlos Chachalacas -- Slave refuge and gateway: David B. Mitchell and the paradox of the Florida frontier -- The Kingsley Community: beyond the plantation -- Florida's African connections in the nineteenth century -- Signs, symbols, and shells: African American cemeteries in Florida -- Mother Laura Adorkor Kofi: the female Marcus Garvey -- Barbecuing the diaspora: jerked pig and roast hog in the writings of Zora Neale Hurston -- Ade Rossman's Zora Neale Hurston series: living Africa under the Florida sun -- Abakua´ communities in Florida: members of the Cuban brotherhood in exile -- Crowning the Orisha: a Lucumi art in South Florida -- The spirit(s) of African religion in Miami -- Carver Baba Onabamiero Ogunleye and the sacred space of the Ifalola compound -- Three Lyawos: a Transatlantic Orisa initiation -- The sacred space of Ola Olu: a neo-Yoruba site near Crescent City, Florida -- Igbo masquerades in the Sunshine State -- African attractions: Florida tourism gone wild.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Other Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

African Americans -- Florida -- History., African Americans -- Florida -- Social conditions., African Americans -- Social conditions., Florida -- History., Kofi, Laura Adorkor., Kingsley, Anna, 1793-1870., Lewis, A. L. (Abraham Lincoln), 1865-1947.

Publication Details

Author

Carlson, Amanda, Poynor, Robin 1942-

Publisher

University Press of Florida

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Gainesville

Call No.

E 185.93 .F5 C3 2014