Deepest dye, the: obeah, hosay, and race in the atlantic world
Auteur :
Khan, Aisha
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674987821
Date de publication :
1 juil. 2021
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Aisha Khan examines two cultural phenomena of colonized laborers in the West Indies: the “African†supernatural practice of obeah and the “Indian†mourning festival of Hosay. The British criminalized both, establishing hierarchies through racial and religious identities still relevant to postcolonial power dynamics, as well as justice movements.