James Sidbury: 1 book
Becoming African in America
Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2007
The first slaves imported to America did not see themselves as "African" but rather as Temne, Igbo, or Yoruban. In Becoming African in America, James Sidbury reveals how an African identity emerged in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world, tracing the development of "African" from a degrading...
