 Jubilee:
The Emergence of African-American Culture by
Howard Dodson (Books) (Author),
Lisa Lytton (Books) (Editor) (Hardcover - February 2003) |
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Publishers Weekly: This is that rare title that effortlessly spans
audience and age-group divides while it popularizes serious and compelling
scholarship, in this case challenging widely held conceptions about
modern culture in the Americas. In clean, almost terse prose Dodson
presents a welter of facts showing the extent to which the colonization
of North and South American depended on slave labor. A page-long foreword
from
Wynton Marsalis recalls the New Orleans culture of his youth.
Next, Dodson (who has been director of Harlem's Schomberg Center for
Research and Black Culture at the New York Public Library since 1984),
along with his stellar team of scholars and poets, zeroes in on the
Americas of the 17th and 18th centuries, when there were far more Black
Americans than white. More than 200 photos and illustrations from the
Schomberg's collection of more than five million work terrifically,
selected specifically to counteract endlessly repeated images of victimization
and document Black economies. They keep the story moving quickly and
forcefully, and show concretely how black resistance resulted in cultural
adaptations that now form the basis of cultures in the Americas: African
and African-American carvings; portraits of prominent business and cultural
figures; close-ups of irons and other implements of torture; marriage
and other documents; contemporary press and poetry-there is an impressive
amount of documentation here, culminating in the end of the Civil War.
Never before have the economic and cultural histories of slavery come
together so concisely and accessibly. This is an explosive, necessary
book. Copyright 2002 Reed Busines Information, Inc. |
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Book Description: Introduction
by Winton Marsalis. Slaves came to the Americas from many different
parts of the African continent, bringing with them distinct languages,
religions, and expressive arts.
Jubilee shows the many ways that these diverse peoples united,
forged their own identity, and laid the foundations for truly unique
African-American social, cultural, political, and economic expressions
throughout the Western Hemisphere.
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Jubilee is written by
Howard Dodson, chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in
Black Culture—one of the most prominent institutions of black scholarship
in the world. Essays by leading voices in African-American history and
literature, including
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.,
John Hope Franklin,
Amiri Bakara,
Annette Gordon-Reed,and
Gail Buckleywill explore topics such as abolition and emancipation,
changes in family life and social development, religion, and the evolution
of language, literacy, and education through the end of Reconstruction.
This illuminating text is surrounded by more than 200 stunning illustrations,
culled from the Schomburg’s collection of more than 5 million items.
From slave ship manifests, manumission papers, and some of the earliest
photographs of slaves to carved items that echo African sculpture and
freedom quilts with African motifs, the book is richly illustrated in
an interactive way that brings to life this crucial transition from
slavery to freedom. |
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