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African homecoming [electronic resource] : Pan-African ideology and contested heritage / Katharina Schramm.

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African Americans and others in the African diaspora have increasingly "come home" to Africa to visit the sites at which their ancestors were enslaved and shipped. In this nuanced analysis of homecoming, Katharina Schramm analyzes how a shared rhetoric of the (Pan- )African family is produ...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Author: Schramm, Katharina
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
Series:Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London.
Subjects:
Heritage tourism > Social aspects > Ghana.
Heritage tourism > Political aspects > Ghana.
Cultural property > Social aspects > Ghana.
Cultural property > Political aspects > Ghana.
Slave trade > Africa, West > History.
African diaspora.
Pan-Africanism.
Heritage tourism > Social aspects.
Slave trade.
West Africa.
Ghana.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. Introduction : African diasporic homecoming and the ambivalence of belonging
  • ch. 2. The layout of an ideology : claiming the African heritage in early pan-Africanism
  • ch. 3. Early connections : pan-Africanism and Ghana's independence
  • ch. 4. History cast in stone : representing the slave trade at Ghana's forts and castles
  • ch. 5. Confronting the past : touring Cape Coast castle
  • ch. 6. Pilgrimage tourism : homecoming as a spiritual journey
  • ch. 7. Emancipation day : a route to understanding homecoming
  • ch. 8. "The re-emergence of African civilization : uniting the African family" : claiming a common heritage in PANAFEST
  • ch. 9. Pan-Africanism as a resource : contested relationships of belonging in the practice of homecoming
  • ch. 10. Conclusion.

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