Main entry:

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture (47th : 2023 : Washington, D.C.),

Title & Author:

Black Atlantic worlds : landscape histories of the African diaspora / Oscar de la Torre, editor.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, [2026]
©2026

Description:

xvi, 308 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 28 cm

Notes:
"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XLVII."--Page preceding title page.
"Volume based on papers presented at the symposium "Environmental Histories of the Black Atlantic World: Landscape Histories of the African Diaspora," organized by Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., and held on May 12-13, 2023."--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword - Preface : The environment surrounding this Black Atlantic Book -- Introduction: Un-silencing and disentangling Black Atlantic landscapes / Oscar de la Torre -- I. Atlantic and counter-Atlantic Africa -- Behind the coast : fighting not to enter the Atlantic world as a commodity / Jacques Aymeric-Nsangou -- Currents of belonging : slavery, maritime flight, and the making of free communities in the waterscapes of colonial Sierra Leone / Myles Ali -- Homo sacer and Atlantic slavery : landscape histories of sacrifice and commodification in a sacred grove near Fort Amsterdam, Ghana / Andrew Apter -- II. Silencing black landscapes. Anxious cartographies : mapping Quilombos in colonial Brazil / Matthew Francis Rarey -- Victuals from the plantationocene : provision grounds and Black personhood in an eighteenth-century Martinican painting / C. C. McKee -- Translating the idealized plantation : Caribbean landscapes and enslaved Africans in a Brazilian agricultural guide / Neil Safier -- III. Sacred and spiritual placemaking. "The land will not expose their designs" : Black Atlantic geopolitics, maroon landscapes, and responses to epidemic disease in the sixteenth-century Ayiti-Kiskeya (Hispaniola) / Elise A. Mitchell -- Vissungos and the Black diamond miners of northern Minas Gerais : verse and landscape from Africa to Brazil / Victoria R. Broadus -- Temples and trees : the ceibas of Havana as icons of Black spirituality, cultural politics, and visual experience in the Atlantic world, 1828-1928 / Joseph R. Hartman -- IV. Landscapes of the urban Black Atlantic -- Land, freedom, and power in New Netherland / Amanda Faulkner -- Toward a Black Atlantic urbanism / Emily Holloway.

Summary:

"Landscapes are key to the Black Atlantic. The history of how Africans and their descendants populated and transformed nations, regions, and ecosystems has always been attentive to the multiple meanings embedded in the landscapes of the Atlantic rim. More recently, the study of archival silences, Black geographies, fugitivity, and the connections between environment and identity has refreshed traditional conversations and formulated new perspectives of analysis, a shift that acts as the focus of Black Atlantic Worlds: Landscape Histories of the African Diaspora. Based on the Dumbarton Oaks 2023 symposium on Black Atlantic landscapes, this volume features the work of scholars from distinct disciplines addressing West African Atlantization processes on both land and water, struggles over voice and agency in landscape representation, Black geographies as a conduit for religion and spirituality, and the unexpected and connective diasporic meanings of urban landscapes. By engaging and building upon the ever-evolving paradigms of Afro-diasporic studies, these contributions illuminate the hidden figures, strategies, and ideas that constitute the Black Atlantic"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780884025283 hardcover
0884025284 hardcover
ebook
9780884025375

Subject:

African diaspora Congresses.
Africans Atlantic Ocean Region History Congresses.
Black people Atlantic Ocean Region History Congresses.
Human ecology Atlantic Ocean Region Congresses.
Cultural landscapes Atlantic Ocean Region Congresses.
Black people Atlantic Ocean Region History.
Africains Atlantique, Région de l' Histoire.
Personnes noires Atlantique, Région de l' Histoire.
Africains Atlantique, Région de l' Histoire Congrès.
Personnes noires Atlantique, Région de l' Histoire Congrès.
Paysages culturels Atlantique, Région de l' Congrès.

Form/genre:

proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

De la Torre, Oscar (Historian), editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room new acquisitions 325383
Call No.: 325383
Copy: 1
Status: Available