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Author Essien, Kwame, author.

Title Brazilian-African diaspora in Ghana : the Tabom, slavery, dissonance of memory, identity, and locating home / Kwame Essien.

Publication Info. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Ruth Simms Hamilton African diaspora series
Ruth Simms Hamilton African diaspora series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Reverse diaspora: dissonance of memory, voyages of hope and degrees of return -- Historicizing the returnee presence in Gã Mã -- Social history of Gã Mã (Accra), colonialism, and their impact on the Brazilian-African diaspora -- Evolution of land in Gã Mã and Brazilian-African diaspora: paradox of freedom and the birth of conflicts -- Escaping slavery into colonialism and squabbles: how colonial projects and internal disputes threatened Brazilian land/diaspora -- Brazilians together, Brazilians apart: the "family trees" and the process of becoming Gã -- (Re) creating Brazilian slavery in an enabling environment -- Contributions by the Brazilian-Africans and the Tabom -- "Fading" diaspora and memory: how the Brazilian government and the Tabom are preserving Brazil House and crisscrossing the Atlantic in full circle -- Epilogue: telescoping Lula's unfulfilled promise and implications for the Tabom's visit to Brazil.
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Subject Freed persons -- Ghana -- History.
Freed persons.
Ghana.
History.
Immigrants -- Ghana -- History.
Immigrants.
Africans -- Brazil -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Africans.
Brazil.
Emigration and immigration.
Children of immigrants -- Ghana -- History.
Children of immigrants.
Ghana -- Emigration and immigration -- History.
Ghana -- Colonial influence.
Colonial influence.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Essien, Kwame. Brazilian-African diaspora in Ghana. East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2016] 9781611862195 (DLC) 2015041934 (OCoLC)927141334
ISBN 9781609175047 (electronic book)
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