References

References

Images for the title headers: 

1. "African-American Children Line Up Outside of Albemarle Region bookmobile stop" 1950. (Public Domain via WikiCommons)

2. Hennick, Calvin. "Haitian Vodou Altar to Petwo, Rada, and Gede Spirits." 2010. (Public Domain via WikiCommons)

3. Hubbard, Tom. "Music at Fountain Square Finds Responsive Audience." 1973. (Public Domain via WikiCommons)

4. Parks, Gordon. "Grocery store owned by Mr. J. Benjamin, on Saturday afternoon (LOC)." August, 1942. Washington, D.C. (Public Domain via WikiCommons)

5. Parks, Gordon. "Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman, with three grandchildren and her adopted daughter." 1942. Washington, D.C. (Public Domain via WikiCommons) 

6. Parks, Gordon. "Pouring lemonade at a birthday party on Seaton Road" June, 1942. Washington, D.C. (Public Domain via WikiCommons)

7. Schryvers, Scott. "Anansi." 2021 (Creative Commons License): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/legalcode

8. White, John, H. "Black Family Enjoying the Summer Weather at Chicago's 12th Street Beach on Lake Michigan." 1973.  (Public Domain via WikiCommons)

Naming Practices

1. Benson, Susan. “Injurious Names: Naming, Disavowal, and Recuperation in Contexts of Slavery an Emancipation.” In An Anthropology of Names and Naming, edited by Gabriele vom Bruck and Barbara Bodenhorn, 177-199. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

2. Black, Kerrigan. “Afro-American Personal Naming Traditions.” In Names, by The American Name Society, 105-125. Potsdam, N.Y: Routledge, 1996.

3. Burnard, Trevor. “Slave Naming Patterns: Onomastics and the Taxonomy of Race in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 31, no. 3 (2001): 325-346.

4. López, Laura Álvarez. “Who named slaves and their children? Names and Naming Practices Among Enslaved Africans brought to the Americas and Their Descendants With a Focus on Brazil.” Journal of African Cultural Studies 27, no. 2 (2015): 159-171.

5. Newell, Stephanie. The Power to Name: A History of Anonymity in Colonial West Africa. Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2013.

6. X, Malcolm and Haley, Alex. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. New York City: Grove Press, 1965.

Anansi Trickster Stories

1. "Anansi." In Myths and Legends of the World, edited by John M. Wickersham. New York, NY: Macmillan Reference USA, 2000. Gale In Context: Canada (accessed May 9, 2023).  https://link-gale-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/apps/doc/EJ2134050024/CIC?u=utoronto_main&sid=bookmark-CIC&xid=468c7871 .  

2. Beckwith, Martha Warren. 1924. Jamaica Anansi Stories. New York:. http://myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fbooks%2Fjamaica-anansi-stories%2Fdocview%2F2138591196%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D14771. 

3. Courlander, Harold. 1966. “Ashanti Folk Tales from Ghana.” New York: Folkways Records,.  

4.  Marshall, Emily Zobel. 2007. “Liminal Anansi: Symbol of Order and Chaos An Exploration of Anansi’s Roots Amongst the Asante of Ghana.” Caribbean Quarterly 53 (3): 30–40.  https://doi.org/10.1080/00086495.2007.11672326 . 

5. REFERENCE LIB: "Anansi." In Myths and Legends of the World, edited by John M. Wickersham. New York, NY: Macmillan Reference USA, 2000. Gale In Context: Canada (accessed May 9, 2023).  https://link-gale-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/apps/doc/EJ2134050024/CIC?u=utoronto_main&sid=bookmark-CIC&xid=468c7871 . 

6. AUDIO RECORDING OF STORIES: Courlander, Harold. 1966. “Ashanti Folk Tales from Ghana.” New York: Folkways Records,  https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Crecorded_cd%7C72350 .  

7. Rattray, R. S. (Robert Sutherland). 1969. Akan-Ashanti Folk-Tales. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 

8. LINER NOTES:  link  (linked in the “related” section, offers a pdf scan of the book being read from 

9. ASANTE HISTORY: Marshall, Emily Zobel. 2007. “Liminal Anansi: Symbol of Order and Chaos An Exploration of Anansi’s Roots Amongst the Asante of Ghana.” Caribbean Quarterly 53 (3): 30–40.  https://doi.org/10.1080/00086495.2007.11672326 . à  jstor link  

10. PRIMARY DATA/GRAHAM LIB: Rattray, R. S. (Robert Sutherland). 1969. Akan-Ashanti Folk-Tales. Oxford: Clarendon Press. à Available at Trinity College Library (John W Graham Library) Stacks (PL8751.R3) à  link  

11. ANALYSIS / ROBARTS STACKS #1: Marshall, Emily Zobel. 2012. Anansi’s Journey : a Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press. – Robarts stacks: GR121 .J2 M377 2012Y 

12. ROBARTS STACKS #2: Folklore from contemporary Jamaicans – Daryl. C Dance 

13. Cite Philip sherlock (from marshall liminal reading) 

14. Cite Jeykyll from Marshall reading 

15. MANY ANANSI STORIES (SLANG): Beckwith, Martha Warren. 1924. Jamaica Anansi Stories. New York:.  http://myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/login?qurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.proquest.com%2Fbooks%2Fjamaica-anansi-stories%2Fdocview%2F2138591196%2Fse-2%3Faccountid%3D14771 .  

Realm of Religion

1. Barima, Kofi Boukman. "Cutting across space and time: Obeah's service to Jamaica's freedom struggle in slavery and emancipation." Journal of Pan African Studies 9, no. 4 (2016): 16+. Gale Literature Resource Center (accessed May 19, 2023). 

2. Bernard, Ian. “Queen Nanny of the Maroons (? - 1733) ” Queen Nanny of the Maroons (1733) January 23, 2023. 

3. BOAZ, DANIELLE N. “OBEAH, VAGRANCY, AND THE BOUNDARIES OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: ANALYZING THE PROSCRIPTION OF ‘PRETENDING TO POSSESS SUPERNATURAL POWERS’ IN THE ANGLOPHONE CARIBBEAN.” Journal of Law and Religion 32, no. 3 (2017): 423–48. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26855622.

4. Brown, Vincent. Tacky’s Revolt : the Story of an Atlantic Slave War. Cambridge, Massachusetts ;: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.

5. Diana Paton. “Witchcraft, Poison, Law, and Atlantic Slavery.” The William and Mary Quarterly 69, no. 2 (2012): 235–64. 

6. Eltis, David. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 16, no. 2 (1985): 365–67. https://doi.org/10.2307/204213.

7. Haitian Revolution Image Collection. London, England: Bridgeman Art Library, n.d.

8. Hucks, Tracey E. Obeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad. Volume I, Obeah : Africans in the White Colonial Imagination. 1st ed. Durham: Duke University Press, 2022.

9. Ogundiran, Akinwumi, and Paula Saunders, eds. Materialities of Ritual in the Black Atlantic. Indiana University Press, 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt16gh620.

10. Paton, Diana. The Cultural Politics of Obeah: Religion, Colonialism and Modernity in the Caribbean World. Critical Perspectives on Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University

11. Press, 2015. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139198417.

12. Popkin, Jeremy D. A Colonial Society in a Revolutionary Era. A Concise History of the Haitian

13. Revolution. Malden, Mass. :: Wiley-Blackwell,, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444347531.

14. Sharpe, Jenny. Ghosts of Slavery a Literary Archaeology of Black Women’s Lives. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003.

15. Strackbein-Bussey, Max. “Magic and Divination in Jamaica’s Freedom Struggle, 1728-1824.”ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2021.

Proverbs and Adages

1. Anderson, Izett, Frank Cundall, and Lilly G. Perkins. 1927. Jamaica Negro Proverbs and Sayings : Collected and Classified According to Subjects. Second edition, revised and enlarged / by Frank Cundall ; illustrated by Lilly G. Perkins. London: Published for The Institute of Jamaica by the West India Committee. 

2. Burton, Richard Francis. 1969. Wit and Wisdom from West Africa; or, A Book of Proverbial Philosophy, Idioms, Enigmas, and Laconisms. New York: Biblo and Tannen. 

3. Claybrook, M. Keith. 2023. “African Proverbs, Riddles, and Narratives as Pedagogy: African Deep Thought in Africana Studies.” Journal of Black Studies 54 (3): 215–35.   https://doi.org/10.1177/00219347231157113 .  

4. Furber, O. A. "Proverbs in Jamaica." Charleston Tri-Weekly Courier, December 30, 1896, 16. Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive (accessed May 11, 2023).   https://link-gale-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/apps/doc/GT3004682021/SAS?u=utoronto_main&sid=bookmark-SAS&xid=68f22553 .   

5. Gillian Richards-Greaves. 2016. “‘Taalk Half, Lef Half’: Negotiating Transnational Identities through Proverbial Speech in African Guyanese Kweh-Kweh Rituals.” The Journal of American Folklore 129 (514): 413–35.   https://doi.org/10.5406/jamerfolk.129.514.0413 .   

6. Mtshiselwa, Ndikho. 2016. “Reconsidering the Freedom Charter, the Black Theology of Liberation and the African Proverb About the Locust’s Head in the Context of Poverty in South Africa.” Hervormde Teologiese Studies 72 (1): 1–7.   https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v72i1.2915 .   

7. Prahlad, Anand. 1996. African-American Proverbs in Context. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

8. Twyman Hoff, Pamela. 2016. “‘Fool Me Once, Shame on You; Fool Me Twice, Shame on Me’: African American Students’ Reclamation of Smartness as Resistance.” Race, Ethnicity and Education 19 (6): 1200–1208.   https://doi.org/10.1080/13613324.2016.1168542 .   

9. Walters, Eric. 2018. From the Heart of Africa : a Book of Wisdom. Toronto: Tundra Books. 

Music and Cultural Production

1. Brennan, Vicki L. 2012. “‘Truly We Have a Good Heritage’: Musical Mediations in a Yoruba Christian Diaspora.” Journal of Religion in Africa 42 (1): 3–25.

2. Cruz, Jon. 1999. Culture on the Margins : The Black Spiritual and the Rise of American Cultural Interpretation. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press. 

3. Hurston, Zora Neale. 1978. Mules and Men. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

4. Jassey, Vicky. “The Rise of Female Batá Drummers.” Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, 2019

5. Meadows, Ruthie. 2021. “Tradicionalismo Africano in Cuba: Women, Consecrated Batá, and the Polemics of ‘Re-Yorubization’ in Cuban Ritual Music.” Ethnomusicology 65 (1): 86–111.

6. Rose, Tricia. 1994. Black Noise : Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press. 

7. Olupona, Jacob K., Terry, Rey. 2008. Òrìşà Devotion as World Religion: the Globalization of Yorùbá Religious Culture. Madison, Wis: University of Wisconsin Press.

8. Omojola, Bode. 2012. Yorùbá Music in the Twentieth Century : Identity, Agency, and Performance Practice. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.

9. Osumare, Halifu. "Rap and Hip Hop." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Thought. : Oxford University Press, 2010. 

10. Washington, Teresa N. 2012. “Mules and Men and Messiahs: Continuity in Yoruba Divination Verses and African American Folktales.” The Journal of American Folklore 125 (497): 263–85.

More Resources

Videos Included in this StoryMap

Naming Practices

1. JetBlakInk. 2012. "Jamaican 'pet names' - Clarendon Shop Keeper." YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46nCsrb7EtU 

Anansi Trickster Stories

1. Courlander, Harold. 2017. "All Stories are Anansi's" YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBYz3mDRp84 

2. Mythology & Fiction Explained. 2022. "Anansi | The Crazy Story of Ghana's Spider-Man Trickster" YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT-NvGBa1zA&t=1s 

3. National Library of Jamaica. 2019. "Miss Lou on Anancy & the Yellow Snake." YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK6-8CfrYjE&t=15s 

Realm of Religion

1. PREEFLIX. 2023. "OBEAH MAN IN JAMAICA?" YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeiSaqkWCT8 

2. Sacred Mysteries World Wide. 2022. "Calling on Ancestor Blessings: Prayer Song (a nod to Gullah Geechee culture)" YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtVsClxa3m4 

3. Television Jamaica. 2019. "TVJ News Today: Obeah vs Spirituality - June 18th 2019" YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-FhifLThkI&t=41s 

4. Television Jamaica. 2013. "The Obeah Conundrum..." YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13Pev92Z2Lg&t=50s 

5. VICE Life. 2016. "Meet the Vodou Priestess Summoning Spirits in Post-Earthquake Haiti." YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqSrTRu53Jc 

Proverbs and Adages

1. Boston University. 2011. "Hausa Proverb 01" YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLESi1Bs0do&list=PLHtbAuJZkRg0Bh_NKtgQkSMOfIhCUyLTF 

2. CFCAUSA. 2009. "Haitian Proverbs" YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS9thQ0X1ZI&t=4s 

3. National Library of Jamaica. 2019. "Miss Lou on Jamaican Proverbs." YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYAxQ3BIF3g 

4. Riley, Tarrus. 2019. "Tarrus Riley - Jamaican Proverbs (Official Audio)." YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TPxgLym8KA 

Music and Cultural Production

1. Armstrong, Louis. 2012. "Go Down Moses." YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf6jBP4YXwo 

2. Golden Gospel Singers. 2013. "Oh Freedom! Golden Gospel Singers (Lyrics in Descriptions)." YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veiJLhXdwn8 

3. Jassey, Vicky. 2019. "The Rise of Female Bata Drummers" Milián Galí Riverí (iyá), Regla Palacio (itótele), Nagybe Madariaga Pouymiró (okónkolo).  https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/gender-taboos-cuban-bata-drumming 

4. Jassey, Vicky. 2019. "The Rise of Female Bata Drummers"

5. Obini Batá in Havana, Cuba,   https://folklife.si.edu/magazine/gender-taboos-cuban-bata-drumming 

6. Kool DJ Herc. 2009. "Viva Freestyle Kool DJ Herc Live." YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjmXMvLU1ps&t=295s 

7. Noble Omoniyi. 2018. "17 Mins Yoruba High Praise Song Lyrics Video [with English Translation]. YouTube.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuQQW2K9REQ