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Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World

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Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World - Khan, Aisha
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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.

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Deepest Dye: Obeah, Hosay, and Race in the Atlantic World 2021, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674987821

Hardcover