The deepest dye : obeah, Hosay, and race in the Atlantic world /
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 rel...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
[2021]
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 223 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674987821 0674987829 |