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Book SynopsisPresents a research on the history and experiences of people of African descent outside of the African continent. By incorporating Europe and North Africa as well as North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this reader shifts the discourse on the African diaspora away from its focus solely on the Americas.
Trade Review"This sparkling mosaic of thought from the African Diaspora redraws the boundaries of relevant scholarship to the benefit of a wide array of students and scholars. A greatly needed volume." -- Sterling Stuckey,Presidential Chair and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History, University of California at Riverside
"Makes a fine introduction to recent scholarship on the African Diaspora, from the slave trade and the geographic dispersal of African people, to the modern conceptualization of the Diaspora as an imagined homeland." * International Journal of African Historical Studies *
"Thus this book will be fruitful for ongoing debates on Diaspora and transnationalism and is indispensable for anyone interested in African Diaspora studies." * Journal of African History *
"These 13 well-written scholarly essays are an eclectic compilation covering disparate topics, places, and time periods relating to the African Diaspora. . . . Recommended." * Choice *
"Many of the essays included in this volume are excellent, and all of them raise issues of interest." * African Affairs *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Diasporic AfricaMichael A. GomezPart I Transformations of the Cultural and Technological during Slavery1 In an Ocean of BlueFrederick Knight2 BatuqueJoao Jose Reis3 The Evolution of Ritual in the African DiasporaJames H. SweetPart II Memory and Instantiations of the Divine 4 Bitter Herbs and a Lock of HairJermaine O. Archer5 Embracing the Religious ProfessionDiane Batts Morrow6 Finding the Past, Making the FutureFran Markowitz7 Spatial Responses of the African Diaspora in JamaicaElizabeth Pigou-DennisPart III Recon?guring the Political/Contesting the Conceptual 8 Blacks and Slavery in MoroccoChouki El Hamel9 Race and the Making of the NationTyler Stovall10 "[She] devoted twenty minutes condemning all other forms ofgovernment but the Soviet"Erik S. McDu?e11 "Boundaries of Law and Disorder"Rose C. Thevenin12 Writing the Diaspora in Black International Literature "With Wider Hope in Some More Benign Fluid ..."Wendy W.Walters13 Displacing DiasporaAsale Angel-AjaniAbout the Contributors Index
