An edition of The Deepest Dye (2021)
The Deepest Dye
Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World
By Aisha Khan
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Publish Date
Jul 13, 2021
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Language
eng
Pages
232
Description:
"Aisha Khan examines two cultural phenomena of colonized laborers in the West Indies: the "African" supernatural practice of obeah and the "Indian" mourning festival of Hosay. The British criminalized both, establishing hierarchies through racial and religious identities still relevant to postcolonial power dynamics, as well as justice movements"--