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The African diaspora : African origins and new world identities / edited by Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, Ali A. Mazrui.
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First paperback edition.
Published/Created
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2001.
copyright 1999
Description
1 online resource (xxviii, 566 pages) : illustrations
Details
Subject(s)
African diaspora
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Africans
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America
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History
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Africans
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America
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Ethnic identity
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Africans
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America
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Intellectual life
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America
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Race relations
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Editor
Okpewho, Isidore
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Boyce Davies, Carole
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Mazrui, Ali AlʼAmin
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Essays
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Summary note
The African Diaspora contributes to the debate between those who believe that the African origin of blacks in Western society is central to their identity and outlook and those who deny that proposition. Contributors include Niyi Afolabi, Adetayo Alabi, Celia M. Azevedo, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Eliana Guerreiro Ramos Bennett, LeGrace Benson, Ira Kincade Blake, Jack S. Blocker, Jr., Sharon Aneta Bryant, Michael J. C. Echeruo, Peter P. Ekeh, Patience Elabor-Idemudia, David Evans, Robert Elliot Fox, Andrea Frohne, Joseph E. Inikori, Joyce Ann Joyce, Joseph McLaren, Charles Martin, Ali A. Mazrui, Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure, Nkiru Nzegwu, Isidore Okpewho, Oyekan Owomoyela, Laura J. Pires-Hester, Richard Price, Sally Price, Jean Rahier, Sandra L. Richards, Elliott P. Skinner, Alvin B. Tillery, Jr., Keith Q. Warner, Maureen Warner-Lewis, and Kimberly Welch.
Notes
Title from resource description page (viewed September 11, 2019).
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
In English.
Contents
An African diaspora : the ontological project / Michael J.C. Echeruo
Cultural reconfigurations in the African Caribbean / Maureen Warner-Lewis
The restoration of African identity for a new millennium / Elliott P. Skinner
Slaves or serfs? A comparative study of slavery and serfdom in Europe and Africa / Joseph E. Inikori
Modernity, memory, Martinique / Richard Price
Kinship and state in African and African American histories / Peter P. Ekeh
Wages of migration : jobs and homeownership among black and white workers in Muncie, Indiana, 1920 / Jack S. Blocker, Jr.
The significance of cognitive-linguistic orientation for academic well-being in African American children / Ira Kincade Blake
The relationship between place of birth and health status / Sharon Aneta Bryant
Images of Africa and the Haiti revolution in American and Brazilian abolitionism / Celia M. Azevedo
Our hunger is our song : the politics of race in Cuba, 1900-1920 / Kimberly Welch
The role of music in the emergence of Afro-Cuban culture / Antonio Benítez-Rojo ; translated by James Maraniss
The centrality of margins : art, gender, and African American creativity / Sally Price
Gabriela Cravo e Canela : Jorge Amado and the myth of the sexual mulata in Brazilian culture / Eliana Guerreiro Ramos Bennett
Gender and the new African diaspora : African immigrant women in the Canadian labor force / Patience Elabor-Idemudia
Horned ancestral masks, Shakespearean actor boys, and Scotch-inspired set girls : social relations in nineteenth-century Jamaican Jonkonnu / Sandra L. Richards
From folklore to literature : the route from roots in the African world / Oyekan Owomoyela
Blackness as a process of creolization : the Afro-Esmeraldian Décimas (Ecuador) / Jean Rahier
The (T)error of invisibility : Ellison and Cruz e Souza / Niyi Afolabi
Recover, not discover : Africa in Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain and Philip's Looking for Livingstone / Adetayo Alabi
Islam and the black diaspora : the impact of Islamigration / Ali A. Mazrui
From Legha to Papa Labas : New World metaphysical self/re-fashioning in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo / Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure
Diasporacentricism and black aural texts / Robert Elliot Fox
The reinterpretation of African musical instruments in the United States / David Evans
The concept of modernity in contemporary African art / Nkiru Nzegwu
Habits of attention : persistence of Lan Ginée in Haiti / LeGrace Benson
Representing Jean-Michel Basquiat / Andrea Frohne --Optic black : implied texts and the colors of photography / Charles Martin
Caribbean cinema, or cinema in the Caribbean? / Keith Q. Warner
The Emergence of Bilateral Diaspora Ethnicity among Cape Verdean-Americans / Laura J. Pires-Hester
Black Americans and the Creation of America's Africa Policies: The De-Racialization of Pan-African Politics
Alvin B. Tillery Jr.
Alice Walker and the Legacy of African American Discourse on Africa
Joseph McLaren
African-Centered Womanism: Connecting Africa to the Diaspora
Joyce Ann Joyce.
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OCLC
1130717829
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