This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage. The book analyzes the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance, and music it elicited, both on the transatlantic journey and on the American continent. The totality of this collection establishes a broad topographical and temporal context for the Passage that extends from the interior of Africa across the Atlantic and to the interior of the Americas, and from the beginning of the Passage to the present day. A collective narrative of itinerant cultural consciousness as represented in histories,...

This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession caused by the Middle Passage. The book analyzes the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance, and music it elicited, both on the transatlantic journey and on the American continent. The totality of this collection establishes a broad topographical and temporal context for the Passage that extends from the interior of Africa across the Atlantic and to the interior of the Americas, and from the beginning of the Passage to the present day. A collective narrative of itinerant cultural consciousness as represented in histories,...

In the inner city streets in the United States, one often notices groups of black youth wearing prison-style outfits, carrying boom boxes and listening to rap music. Inevitably one hears them use the N-word among themselves. Upon entering a migrant district in any European city, one encounters almost identical scenes. However, in European cities, most of migrant youth are of a "white" or olive complexion, who refer to themselves as "Wiggers," "white Niggers," or "Black albinos." The essays included in this volume are an outgrowth of a symposium on transcultural and national orientation called...