Sara Fanning
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780814764930
- eISBN:
- 9780814760086
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814764930.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter examines the migration to Haiti in the context of other contemporary migrations. Although organizations and sponsors called the migrants from the U.S. to Haiti “emigrants,” in some ...
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This chapter examines the migration to Haiti in the context of other contemporary migrations. Although organizations and sponsors called the migrants from the U.S. to Haiti “emigrants,” in some senses they were colonists and in other senses exiles. The African American migrants differed from most European colonists in that they were attracted to their destination by its independence from their home nation. But they were not forced to leave; leaving was an act of conscience. To a greater extent than any Europeans since the Puritan “Pilgrims,” they sought refuge from exclusion in the home nation in the actively sympathetic philosophy of the new nation. Even as they retained American customs, the free blacks embraced Haiti's constitution, tacitly rejecting that of the United States. Ultimately, the African American emigrants were political pilgrims, and this is what distinguishes their experience from that of contemporary migrants and colonial adventurers.Less
This chapter examines the migration to Haiti in the context of other contemporary migrations. Although organizations and sponsors called the migrants from the U.S. to Haiti “emigrants,” in some senses they were colonists and in other senses exiles. The African American migrants differed from most European colonists in that they were attracted to their destination by its independence from their home nation. But they were not forced to leave; leaving was an act of conscience. To a greater extent than any Europeans since the Puritan “Pilgrims,” they sought refuge from exclusion in the home nation in the actively sympathetic philosophy of the new nation. Even as they retained American customs, the free blacks embraced Haiti's constitution, tacitly rejecting that of the United States. Ultimately, the African American emigrants were political pilgrims, and this is what distinguishes their experience from that of contemporary migrants and colonial adventurers.
Thomas D. Rogers
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834336
- eISBN:
- 9781469603902
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807899588_rogers.6
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter describes a space, a terrestrial zone in the tropical latitudes lying along the eastern coast of South America. From the earliest arrival of humans migrating down from the land bridge ...
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This chapter describes a space, a terrestrial zone in the tropical latitudes lying along the eastern coast of South America. From the earliest arrival of humans migrating down from the land bridge connecting the continent with North America to the spread of European colonists and African slaves to the impact of a comparatively dense Brazilian population today, this area was molded into a landscape. As people shaped the landscape physically, they also added contours of meaning and understanding. The physical processes take precedence in this chapter, which describes colonization, the beginning of sugar production and its rapid growth, the later spread of cotton farming, and finally the expansion and renewed emphasis on sugarcane at the end of the nineteenth century.Less
This chapter describes a space, a terrestrial zone in the tropical latitudes lying along the eastern coast of South America. From the earliest arrival of humans migrating down from the land bridge connecting the continent with North America to the spread of European colonists and African slaves to the impact of a comparatively dense Brazilian population today, this area was molded into a landscape. As people shaped the landscape physically, they also added contours of meaning and understanding. The physical processes take precedence in this chapter, which describes colonization, the beginning of sugar production and its rapid growth, the later spread of cotton farming, and finally the expansion and renewed emphasis on sugarcane at the end of the nineteenth century.
Michael V. Pisani
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300108934
- eISBN:
- 9780300130737
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300108934.001.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This book offers a comprehensive look at musical representations of native America from the pre-colonial past through the American West and up to the present. The discussion covers a wide range of ...
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This book offers a comprehensive look at musical representations of native America from the pre-colonial past through the American West and up to the present. The discussion covers a wide range of topics, from the ballets of Lully in the court of Louis XIV to popular ballads of the nineteenth century; from eighteenth-century British-American theater to the musical theater of Irving Berlin; from chamber music by Dvôrák to film music for Apaches in Hollywood Westerns. The book demonstrates how European colonists and their descendants were fascinated by the idea of race and ethnicity in music, and it examines how music contributed to the complex process of cultural mediation. The book reveals how certain themes and metaphors changed over the centuries and shows how much of this “Indian music”, which was and continues to be largely imagined, alternately idealized and vilified the peoples of native America.Less
This book offers a comprehensive look at musical representations of native America from the pre-colonial past through the American West and up to the present. The discussion covers a wide range of topics, from the ballets of Lully in the court of Louis XIV to popular ballads of the nineteenth century; from eighteenth-century British-American theater to the musical theater of Irving Berlin; from chamber music by Dvôrák to film music for Apaches in Hollywood Westerns. The book demonstrates how European colonists and their descendants were fascinated by the idea of race and ethnicity in music, and it examines how music contributed to the complex process of cultural mediation. The book reveals how certain themes and metaphors changed over the centuries and shows how much of this “Indian music”, which was and continues to be largely imagined, alternately idealized and vilified the peoples of native America.
C. Winter Han
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479831951
- eISBN:
- 9781479824700
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479831951.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
This chapter argues that Asian men, both gay and straight, have historically been feminized as a result of western domination and control and continue to be feminized today through subtle means, ...
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This chapter argues that Asian men, both gay and straight, have historically been feminized as a result of western domination and control and continue to be feminized today through subtle means, which helps to maintain masculine domination of White men over Asian men. It describes how the European colonists homogenized vastly different cultural groups with different views regarding gender roles. This includes homosexual acts, and were placed altogether under the umbrella of “the oriental.” Media products such as films, television, and even comic books help trace how the complex relationships between the east and the west have led to the construction of the “mysterious east” that acts as a comparison to the “rational west” and how these constructions demonstrate an attempt to construct the west as being more masculine, thus more superior, to the east.Less
This chapter argues that Asian men, both gay and straight, have historically been feminized as a result of western domination and control and continue to be feminized today through subtle means, which helps to maintain masculine domination of White men over Asian men. It describes how the European colonists homogenized vastly different cultural groups with different views regarding gender roles. This includes homosexual acts, and were placed altogether under the umbrella of “the oriental.” Media products such as films, television, and even comic books help trace how the complex relationships between the east and the west have led to the construction of the “mysterious east” that acts as a comparison to the “rational west” and how these constructions demonstrate an attempt to construct the west as being more masculine, thus more superior, to the east.
