 | Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas Subjects: African Americans -- Race identity; Blacks -- Race identity -- West Indies; Cosmopolitanism; Transnationalism; African Americans -- Intellectual life; Blacks -- West Indies -- Intellectual life; American literature -- African American authors -- History a; Through readings of slave narratives, fiction, poetry, nonfiction, newspaper editorials, and government documents including texts by Frederick Douglass and freed West Indian slave Mary Prince, Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo explicates the growing interrelatedness of people of African descent through the Americas in the nineteenth century. Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. |
