When the Devil Knocks: The Congo Tradition and the Politics of Blackness in Twentieth-Century Panama by Renée Alexander Craft

  • Jerry Scruggs University of Tennessee-Knoxville
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32855/palara.2017.006

Abstract

When the Devil Knocks provides an insightful view into the Congo tradition (s) that coincides with Carnival in Portobelo, Panama and surrounding Atlantic-based Afro-Colonial Panamanian communities. Reminiscent of the Peruvian ethnography Yo soy negro due to its Afro-diasporic focus, Renée Alexander Craft demonstrates an exhaustive maneuvering of knowledge pertaining to a nuanced understanding of blackness in contemporary Panama.
Number 21 | 2017
Published
2018-02-27
Issue
No. 21 (2017): Fall
Section
BOOK REVIEWS

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