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Book SynopsisAddresses issues including: geographical mobility and geosocial displacement; changing cultural, political, and economic relationships between Africa and its diaspora; interdiaspora relations; and political and economic agency and social mobilization, including cultural production and psychocultural transformation.
Table of ContentsThe Black Question in Brazil: An Issue Denied, Josildeth Gomes Consorte; The Evolution of Black Identity in the Dominican Republic, Edward Paulino; The Louvre Negresse: Interpretation and Illustration, Anne C. Meyering; The Politics of Space, the Poetics of Place: Africville, Africadia, and the African Diaspora in Canada, Raymond Familusi; Reflections on the African Diaspora in Israel, 1997, Marcus Shapley; Redefining a Collective Identity in the Struggle for State and National Identity in Ethiopia and Israel: The Case of Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel), Ruth Simms Hamilton with Getahun Benti; Asphalt Stages: Pickup Basketball and the Performance of Blackness, Michael Hanson; The Marimba Still Sounds: Building Cultural Pride and Political Resistance through Afro-Ecuadorian Music and Dance, Troy Peters; Transnational Politics: A Note on Black Americans and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Ruth Simms Hamilton; The African Diaspora in the Twenty-first Century: The Past is Prologue, Elliott P. Skinner.
