African Europeans : an untold history / Olivette Otele.
| Author/creator |
Otele, Olivette author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Edition | First Edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Basic Books, 2021. |
| Copyright Notice | ̐u2021 |
| Description | x, 291 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Subject(s) |
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| Contents | Introduction -- Early encounters: from pioneers to African Romans -- Black Mediterraneans: slavery and the Renaissance -- The transatlantic slave trade and the invention of race -- Neither here nor there: dual heritages and gender roles -- Fleeting memories: colonial America and forgotten figures -- Claiming a past, navigating the present -- Identity and liberation: African Europeans today -- Epilogue. |
| Abstract | "A dazzling history of Africans in Europe, revealing their unacknowledged role in shaping the continent. Conventional wisdom holds that Africans are only a recent presence in Europe. But in African Europeans, renowned historian Olivette Otele debunks this and uncovers a long history of Europeans of African descent. From the third century, when the Egyptian Saint Maurice became the leader of a Roman legion, all the way up to the present, Otele explores encounters between those defined as "Africans" and those called "Europeans." She gives equal attention to the most prominent figures--like Alessandro de Medici, the first duke of Florence thought to have been born to a free African woman in a Roman village--and the untold stories--like the lives of dual-heritage families in Europe's coastal trading towns. African Europeans is a landmark celebration of this integral, vibrantly complex slice of European history, and will redefine the field for years to come."--Amazon. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-268) and index. |
| Genre/form | History / Africa. |
| Genre/form | History / Africa. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9781541619678 |
| ISBN | 1541619676 |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | D1056.2.B55 O84 2021 | Item has been checked out - Due: 07/06/2024 | Want This? |