Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies A Critical Anthology
Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies brings into conversation two fields—Early Modern Studies and Black Studies—that traditionally have had little to say to each other. This disconnect is the product of current scholarly assumptions about a lack of ar
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cassander l. smith nicholas r. jones miles p. grier
e a r ly modern b lac k d i a s po r a s tu d i es A Cr itical Antholog y
Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies
Cassander L. Smith · Nicholas R. Jones Miles P. Grier Editors
Early Modern Black Diaspora Studies A Critical Anthology
Editors Cassander L. Smith Department of English University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
Miles P. Grier Department of English Queens College, CUNY Flushing, NY, USA
Nicholas R. Jones Department of Spanish Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA, USA
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Acknowledgements
This book owes a great debt to the fields of Black Studies, Early American Studies, and Early Modern Studies where scholars, especially in recent years, have been willing to entertain discussions about what these historically disparate fields might have to say to each other. This book is an effort to formalize the conversations. The idea for the book began as a tiny kernel planted at a one-day symposium at New York University in 2011 organized by this volume’s co-editor Nicholas R. Jones. During that symposium—titled “Strange Fruit: Conceptualizing Africanity, Slavery, and Racial Difference in the Early Modern Atlantic World”—we explored the ways in which written texts, as well as material and visual culture, informed, and at other times mi
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