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Cultural Resistance In The African Diaspora: A Historical And Contemporary Analysis Of Land-Based Community Care, Toluwani Roberts
Cultural Resistance In The African Diaspora: A Historical And Contemporary Analysis Of Land-Based Community Care, Toluwani Roberts
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“Cultural Resistance in the African Diaspora: A Historical and Contemporary Analysis of Land-Based Community Care” explores the use of land for the self-liberation and sustenance of African and African descendant peoples. It argues that collective cultivation of land is key to the development of African-derived cultures and forms the foundation of resistance against Western-capitalist cultural domination. Maroon societies, also known as runaway communities, of the 16th to 19th centuries are one of the earliest examples of land-based resistance in slave colonies that have contributed to the development of what we now call the African Diaspora. Maroon Societies: Rebel Slave Communities …