Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World
Edición de la obra The Deepest Dye
| Autor | Aisha Khan |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Harvard University Press |
| Fecha de publicación | Jul 13, 2021 |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 240 |
| Formato | hardcover |
| ISBN-13 | 9780674987821 |
| ISBN-10 | 0674987829 |
| OCLC | 1198016735 |
| LCCN | 2020047204 |
| Número de Cutter | K45d |
"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"--