Redefining The African Diaspora

Author : Toyin Falola,Danielle Porter Sanchez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1604979011

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Redefining the African Diaspora by Toyin Falola,Danielle Porter Sanchez Pdf

Tradition and modernity as they relate to African and diasporic cultures do not exist within a vacuum. They reflect the constantly changing relations and factors that define daily life in Africa and beyond. For example, one cannot consider Congolese fabric in the mid-twentieth century without thinking about the immense impact of the Second World War on ideas about French colonialism and trade relations within the French empire. African cultures are immensely significant in the larger histories and microhistories of Africa and the African diaspora because they often reflect the important nuances of race, class, and gender and how these factors intersect with politics and society on local, regional, national, and global levels. This book thus examines the important connections between African cultures and social and political movements in the African diaspora--from Brazil to the United States.

Author : Edna G. Bay,Kristin Mann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135310738

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Rethinking the African Diaspora by Edna G. Bay,Kristin Mann Pdf

As a result of new research, we can now paint a more complex picture of peoples and cultures in the south Atlantic, from the earliest period of the slave trade up to the present. The nine papers in this volume indicate that a dynamic and continuous movement of peoples east as well as west across the Atlantic forged diverse and vibrant re-inventions and re-interpretations of the rich mix of cultures represented by Africans and peoples of African descent on both continents.

Author : Ruth Simms Hamilton
Publisher : Ruth SIMMs Hamilton African Di
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UCSC:32106018815529

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Routes of Passage by Ruth Simms Hamilton Pdf

Routes of Passage provides a conceptual, substantive, and empirical orientation to the study of African people worldwide. The book addresses issues of geographical mobility and geosocial displacement; changing culture, political, and economic relationships between Africa and its diaspora; interdiaspora relations; political and economic agency and social mobilization, including cultural production and psychocultural transformation; existence in hostile and oppressive political and territorial space; and confronting interconnected relations of social inequality, especially class, gender, nationality, and race.

Author : Ruth Simms Hamilton
Publisher : Ruth SIMMs Hamilton African Di
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015070729663

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Routes of Passage by Ruth Simms Hamilton Pdf

Routes of Passage provides a conceptual, substantive, and empirical orientation to the study of African people worldwide. Routes of Passage addresses issues of geographical mobility and geosocial displacement; changing cultural, political, and economic relationships between Africa and its diaspora; interdiaspora relations; political and economic agency and social mobilization, including cultural production and psychocultural transformation; existence in hostile and oppressive political and territorial space; and confronting interconnected relations of social inequality, especially class, gender, nationality, and race.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0870136925

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Routes of Passage by Anonim Pdf

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580464529

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The African Diaspora by Toyin Falola Pdf

The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the present, millions of Africans have been dispersed -- many of them forcibly, others driven by economic need or political persecution--to other continents, creating large communities with African origins living outside their native lands. The majority of these communities are in North America. This historic displacement has meant that Africans are irrevocably connected to economic and political developments in the West and globally. Among the known legacies of the diaspora are slavery, colonialism, racism, poverty, and underdevelopment, yet the ways in which these same factors worked to spur the scattering of Africans are not fully understood -- by those who were part of this migration or by scholars, historians, and policymakers. In this definitive study of the diaspora in North America, Toyin Falola offers a causal history of the western dispersion of Africans and its effects on the modern world. Reengaging old and familiar debates and framing new ones that enrich the discourse surrounding Africa, Falola isolates the thread, running nearly six centuries, that connects the history of slavery, the transatlantic slave trade, and current migrations. A boon to scholars and policymakers and accessible to the general reader, the book explores diverse narratives of migration and shows that the cultures that migrated from Africa to the Americas have the capacity to unite and create a new pan-Africanist movement within the globalized world. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the 2011 recipient of the Distinguished Africanist Award from the African Studies Association and serves as the vice president of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. His previous books published by the University of Rochester Press include The Power of African Cultures and Nationalism and African Intellectuals.

Author : Paul E. Lovejoy,David Vincent Trotman
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0826449085

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Trans-Atlantic Dimensions of Ethnicity in the African Diaspora by Paul E. Lovejoy,David Vincent Trotman Pdf

This group of essays, resulting from research affiliated with the UNESCO Slave Route Project, explores trans-Atlantic linkages and cultural overlays during the era of slavery and after. In exploring the cultural impact of the slave trade in Africa and the Americas, these essays contend that complex, intercontinental forces shaped the African Diaspora; the repercussions being felt on both sides of the Atlantic. Personal experience, memory and tradition kept alive cultural forms and expressions, whether through music, poetry or other means. The encounters forced on the enslaved generated new social relationships and reshaped the ways in which people identified, redefining ethnicity both in Africa and the Americas in ways that no one could have possibly foreseen.

Author : Isidore Okpewho,Nkiru Nzegwu
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253003362

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The New African Diaspora by Isidore Okpewho,Nkiru Nzegwu Pdf

The New York Times reports that since 1990 more Africans have voluntarily relocated to the United States and Canada than had been forcibly brought here before the slave trade ended in 1807. The key reason for these migrations has been the collapse of social, political, economic, and educational structures in their home countries, which has driven Africans to seek security and self-realization in the West. This lively and timely collection of essays takes a look at the new immigrant experience. It traces the immigrants' progress from expatriation to arrival and covers the successes as well as problems they have encountered as they establish their lives in a new country. The contributors, most immigrants themselves, use their firsthand experiences to add clarity, honesty, and sensitivity to their discussions of the new African diaspora.

Author : Ruth Simms Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : African diaspora
ISBN : 1628964537

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Routes of Passage: Rethinking the African Diaspora by Ruth Simms Hamilton Pdf

Author : Ytasha L. Womack,Derek T. Dingle
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781569765418

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Post Black by Ytasha L. Womack,Derek T. Dingle Pdf

As a young journalist covering black life at large, author Ytasha L. Womack was caught unaware when she found herself straddling black culture's rarely acknowledged generation gaps and cultural divides. Traditional images show blacks unified culturally, politically, and socially, united by race at venues such as churches and community meetings. But in the “post black” era, even though individuals define themselves first as black, they do not necessarily define themselves by tradition as much as by personal interests, points of view, and lifestyle. In Post Black: How a New Generation Is Redefining African American Identity, Womack takes a fresh look at dynamics shaping the lives of contemporary African Americans. Although grateful to generations that have paved the way, many cannot relate to the rhetoric of pundits who speak as ambassadors of black life any more than they see themselves in exaggerated hip-hop images. Combining interviews, opinions of experts, and extensive research, Post Black will open the eyes of some, validate the lives of others, and provide a realistic picture of the expanding community.

Author : Anima Adjepong
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469665207

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Afropolitan Projects by Anima Adjepong Pdf

Beyond simplistic binaries of "the dark continent" or "Africa Rising," Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics. Amongst the privileged classes, these articulations can be characterized as Afropolitan projects--cultural, political, and aesthetic expressions of global belonging rooted in African ideals. This ethnographic study examines the Afropolitan projects of Ghanaians living in two cosmopolitan cities: Houston, Texas, and Accra, Ghana. Anima Adjepong's focus shifts between the cities, exploring contests around national and pan-African cultural politics, race, class, sexuality, and religion. Focusing particularly on queer sexuality, Adjepong offers unique insight into the contemporary sexual politics of the Afropolitan class. The book expands and complicates existing research by providing an in-depth transnational case study that not only addresses questions of cosmopolitanism, class, and racial identity but also considers how gender and sexuality inform the racialized identities of Africans in the United States and in Ghana. Bringing an understudied cohort of class-privileged Africans to the forefront, Adjepong offers a more fully realized understanding of the diversity of African lives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:729029219

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African Diaspora Identities by Anonim Pdf

African Diaspora Identities provides insights into the complex transnational processes involved in shaping the migratory identities of African immigrants. It seeks to understand the durability of these African transnational migrant identities and their impact on inter-minority group relationships. John A. Arthur demonstrates that the identities African immigrants construct often transcends country-specific cultures and normative belief systems. He illuminates the fact that these transnational migrant identities are an amalgamation of multiple identities formed in varied social transnational settings. The United States has become a site for the cultural formations, manifestations, and contestations of the newer identities that these immigrants seek to depict in cross-cultural and global settings. Relying mostly on their strong human capital resources (education and family), Africans are devising creative, encompassing, and robust ways to position and reposition their new identities. In combining their African cultural forms and identities with new roles, norms, and beliefs that they imbibe in the United States and everywhere else they have settled, Africans are redefining what it means to be black in a race-, ethnicity-, and color-conscious Americansociety.

Author : Ruth Simms Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : African diaspora
ISBN : 1628964545

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Routes of Passage: Rethinking the African Diaspora by Ruth Simms Hamilton Pdf

Author : John W. Arthur
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739146392

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African Diaspora Identities by John W. Arthur Pdf

African Diaspora Identities provides insights into the complex transnational processes involved in shaping the migratory identities of African immigrants. It seeks to understand the durability of these African transnational migrant identities and their impact on inter-minority group relationships. John A. Arthur demonstrates that the identities African immigrants construct often transcends country-specific cultures and normative belief systems. He illuminates the fact that these transnational migrant identities are an amalgamation of multiple identities formed in varied social transnational settings. The United States has become a site for the cultural formations, manifestations, and contestations of the newer identities that these immigrants seek to depict in cross-cultural and global settings. Relying mostly on their strong human capital resources (education and family), Africans are devising creative, encompassing, and robust ways to position and reposition their new identities. In combining their African cultural forms and identities with new roles, norms, and beliefs that they imbibe in the United States and everywhere else they have settled, Africans are redefining what it means to be black in a race-, ethnicity-, and color-conscious American society.

Author : Behnaz A. Mirzai,Bonny Ibhawoh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11
Category : African diaspora
ISBN : 1569026130

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Africa and Its Diasporas by Behnaz A. Mirzai,Bonny Ibhawoh Pdf

Building on the UN proclamations on recognition and empowerment of people of African descent, and the renewed interest they have generated in African diaspora scholarship, this volume brings together the perspectives of experts from various disciplines on historical and contemporary challenges faced by peoples of African descendant, their survival strategies and cultural adaptations around the world.