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Article: Rethinking the African Diaspora: The Making of a Black Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil
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- African Studies Review
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- September 1, 2003
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Kristin Mann and Edna G. Bay, eds. Rethinking the African Diaspora: The Making of a Black Atlantic World in the Bight of Benin and Brazil. London and Portland, Ore.: Frank Cass Publishers, 2001. 168 pp. Bibliography. Index. $64.50. Cloth. $24.50. Paper.
This book provides a long-awaited continuation of the conversation between Brazil and the Bight of Benin about the nature of the African diaspora. As many Afro-Brazilians and West Africans are already aware, the Afro-Atlantic shores were active places where Africans and their descendants moved back and forth in myriad roles and circumstances. Mann and Bay have edited a volume that underscores the necessity of looking closely at the ...