[PDF.61os] African Lace-bark in the Caribbean: The Construction of Race, Class and Gender

African Lace-bark in the Caribbean: The Construction of Race, Class and Gender

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 | #2079548 in eBooks |  2016-07-14 |  2016-07-14 | File type: PDF

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Highly recommended—the intersection of craft, race, gender, botany, and more|By Aimee Lee|This is an excellent and meticulously-researched book written in prose that makes it easy for the general reader to follow. It gives a fascinating history of the migration of lace-bark from Africa to the Caribbean, focusing mainly on Jamaica but noting its presence in Cuba in Haiti,| |Lace-bark is truly an extraordinary natural material, and one bound intimately to the history of the Caribbean. This book is the first to reveal the hidden lives of the men and women who created the complex chain from living plant to clothing, giving agency to

In Caribbean history, the European colonial plantocracy created a cultural diaspora in which African slaves were torn from their ancestral homeland. In order to maintain vital links to their traditions and culture, slaves retained certain customs and nurtured them in the Caribbean. The creation of lace-bark cloth from the lagetta tree was a practice that enabled slave women to fashion their own clothing, an exercise that was both a necessity, as clothing provisions for s...

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