"Have Some Respect! Black People Died Here!" The Politics of Modern Blackness at Cape Coast Castle

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ID5848722
AuthorsSarah P Otto (0000-0003-3042-0818, Carleton University, corresponding author), Sarah Otto
Year2020
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeTHESIS
PublisherCarleton University (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.22215/etd/2020-14222
OpenAlexW3101256035
LanguageEN
References cited22

My thesis explores the Politics of Modern Blackness at Cape Coast Castle in Ghana by analyzing how identity and belonging can be mapped on to monuments. I critically assess the relationship between dominant anti-black transnational discourses and the diverse way national black identities engage with this transnational anti-blackness through border thinking. I do this by analyzing the dominance of black Americans at the Cape Coast Castle diasporic section of the museum and by presenting the Ghanaian context that this dominance is situated in. My thesis ultimately demonstrates how black heterogeneity and black agency can be sustained in the context of transnational anti-blackness and domination

Black British · Black sea · Cape · Dominance (genetics · African history and culture studies · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture

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