Black Atlantic worlds : landscape histories of the African diaspora /
"Landscapes are key to the Black Atlantic. The history of how Africans and their descendants populated and transformed nations, regions, and ecosystems has always been attentive to the multiple meanings embedded in the landscapes of the Atlantic rim. More recently, the study of archival silence...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University,
[2026]
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| Summary: | "Landscapes are key to the Black Atlantic. The history of how Africans and their descendants populated and transformed nations, regions, and ecosystems has always been attentive to the multiple meanings embedded in the landscapes of the Atlantic rim. More recently, the study of archival silences, Black geographies, fugitivity, and the connections between environment and identity has refreshed traditional conversations and formulated new perspectives of analysis, a shift that acts as the focus of Black Atlantic Worlds: Landscape Histories of the African Diaspora. Based on the Dumbarton Oaks 2023 symposium on Black Atlantic landscapes, this volume features the work of scholars from distinct disciplines addressing West African Atlantization processes on both land and water, struggles over voice and agency in landscape representation, Black geographies as a conduit for religion and spirituality, and the unexpected and connective diasporic meanings of urban landscapes. By engaging and building upon the ever-evolving paradigms of Afro-diasporic studies, these contributions illuminate the hidden figures, strategies, and ideas that constitute the Black Atlantic"-- |
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| Item Description: | "Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XLVII."--Page preceding title page. "Volume based on papers presented at the symposium "Environmental Histories of the Black Atlantic World: Landscape Histories of the African Diaspora," organized by Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., and held on May 12-13, 2023."--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 308 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780884025283 0884025284 |