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<p>What are the perceived differences among African Americans, West Indians, and Afro Latin Americans? What are the hierarchies implicit in those perceptions, and when and how did these develop? For Ifeoma Nwankwo the turning point came in the wake of the Haitian Revolution of 1804. The uprising was significant because it not only brought into being the first Black republic in the Americas but also encouraged new visions of the interrelatedness of peoples of the African Diaspora. <i>Black Cosmopolitanism</i> looks to the aftermath of this historical moment to examine the disparities and similarities between the approaches to identity articulated by people of African descent in the United States, Cuba, and the British West Indies during the nineteenth century.</p> <p>In <i>Black Cosmopolitanism</i>, Nwankwo contends that whites' fears of the Haitian Revolution and its potentially contagious nature virtually forced people of African descent throughout the Americas who were in the public eye to articulate their stance toward the event. While some, like William Wells Brown in his slave narrative, chose not to mention the existence of people of African heritage in other countries, other
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- Author
- Nwankwo, Ifeoma Kiddoe
- Publisher
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780812292121
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Literary Fiction
- Rating
- 3.67 / 5 (2 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
Other editions & translations
- Black cosmopolitanism: racial consciousness and transnational ideology in the Americas (2005)
- Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas (Rethinking the Americas) (1970)
- Black cosmopolitanism : racial consciousness and transnational identity in the nineteenth-century Americas (1970)
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