The Yoruba diaspora in the Atlantic world [electronic resource] / edited by Toyin Falola and Matt D. Childs. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2004. - xii, 455 p. : ill. - Blacks in the diaspora . - Blacks in the diaspora. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-445) and index.

The Yoruba diaspora in the Atlantic world : methodology and research / Matt D. Childs and Toyin Falola -- The diaspora of Yoruba speakers, 1650-1865 : dimensions and implications / David Eltis -- The Yoruba factor in the trans-Atlantic slave trade / Paul E. Lovejoy -- The enslavement of Yoruba / Ann O'Hear -- Nago and Mina : the Yoruba diaspora in Brazil / Joao Jose Reis and Beatriz Gallotti Mamigonian -- The Yoruba in Cuba : origins, identities, and transformations / Michele Reid -- Africans in a colony of creoles : the Yoruba in colonial Costa Rica / Russell Lohse -- Yoruba in the British Caribbean : a comparative perspective on Trinidad and the Bahamas / Rosalyn Howard -- The influential Yoruba past in Haiti / Kevin Roberts -- The "nagoization" process in Bahian candomble / Luis Nicolau Pares -- Santeria in Cuba : tradition and transformation / Christine Ayorinde -- From Gbe to Yoruba : ethnic change and the Mina nation in Rio de Janeiro / Mariza C. Soares -- Yoruba family, gender, and kinship roles in new world slavery / Kevin Roberts -- Revolution and religion : Yoruba sacred music in socialist Cuba / Robin Moore -- Reclaiming the past : Yoruba elements in African American arts / Babatunde Lawal -- "Yorubaisms" in African American "speech" patterns / Augustine H. Agwuele -- Yoruba liberated slaves who returned to West Africa / Robin Law -- The Yoruba diaspora in Sierra Leone's Krio society / C. Magbaily Fyle -- Liberated slaves and Islam in nineteenth-century West Africa / Gibril R. Cole.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






Yoruba (African people)--History.--America
Slavery--History.--America
Return migration--Africa, West.
African diaspora.


Electronic books.

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