Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition Young Adult Fiction Coming of Age Diversity & Multicultural Family - Parents and her legacy

and her legacy

told from the enslaved Jim's point of view

which unlike other fish are denser than water

Age Range:   6 - 8

From the beginning of the nation to today

Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition Young Adult Fiction Coming of Age Diversity & Multicultural Family - Parents and her legacyThis volume demonstrates how, from the beginning of the Atlantic slave trade, enslaved and free Africans in the Americas used Catholicism and Christian derived celebrations as spaces for autonomous cultural expression, social organization, and political empowerment. Their appropriation of Catholic based celebrations calls into question the long held idea that Africans and their descendants in the diaspora either resignedly accepted Christianity or