Encyclopedia of the African diaspora [electronic resource] : origins, experiences, and culture / Carole Boyce Davies, editor.

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Book
Language
English
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Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2008.
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1 online resource (3 v. (lxiv, 1010, I-20 p.)) : ill., maps.

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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
  • v. 1. Abakuá
  • Abolitionism in the African Diaspora
  • Abu-Jamal, Mumia (1954-)
  • Abyssinia/Ethiopia
  • Achebe, Chinua (1930-)
  • Adivasi
  • Africa
  • African American Vernacular English (AAVE)
  • African American Women
  • African Americans and the Constitutional Order
  • African Ballet
  • African Blood Brotherhood (ABB)
  • African Canadian Film
  • African Diaspora Film
  • African Diaspora Performance Aesthetics
  • African Diasporic Sociology
  • "African" in African American History
  • African Matrix Culture
  • African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church
  • African Union (AU)
  • Africanus, Sextus Julius (ca. 160-ca. 240)
  • Afrocentricity
  • Afro-Cuban Literature
  • Afro-Cuban Music
  • Afro-Fusion Dance
  • Ahimsa
  • Aidoo, Ama Ata (1942-)
  • Akara
  • Alexis, Jacques Stéphen (1922-1961)
  • Algerian Revolution
  • Ali, Duse Mohamed (1867-1944)
  • Ali, Muhammad (1942-)
  • Al-Jahiz (776-868)
  • All-African People's Revolutionary Party (A-APRP)
  • Alpha Kappa Alpha
  • Alves, Miriam (1952-)
  • Ambar, Malik (ca. 1550-1626)
  • Amo, Antonius Guilielmus (Wilhelm) (1703-ca. 1753)
  • Ananse
  • Anastácia (1741-?)
  • -- Angelou, Maya (1928-)
  • Anikulapo-Kuti, Fela (1938-1997)
  • Ansina (1760?-1860)
  • Antonio the Ethiopian (?-1550)
  • Argentina: Afro-Argentines
  • Arias, Aurora (1962-)
  • Aristide, Jean-Bertrand (1953-)
  • Art in the African Diaspora
  • Asantewaa, Yaa (ca. 1830-1922)
  • Àshé
  • Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH)
  • Atlantic World and the African Diaspora
  • Axum
  • Azikiwe, Nnamdi (1904-1996)
  • Baartman, Sarah (1788-1816)
  • Babalawo
  • Babu, Abdulrahman Mohammed (1924-1996)
  • Bahamas
  • Bahamas: Liberated Africans
  • Baker, Ella J. (1903-1986)
  • Baker, Josephine (1906-1975)
  • Bambaataa, Afrika (1957-)
  • Baraka, Amiri (1934-)
  • Barbados: African Cultural Elements
  • Basquiat, Jean-Michel (1960-1988)
  • Batouala
  • Bava Gor (14th Century?)
  • Belize: African Communities
  • Benedetto the Moor, Saint (ca. 1524-1589)
  • Benin
  • Bennett, Louise (1919-2006)
  • Bethune, Mary McLeod (1875-1955)
  • Bethune-Cookman University
  • Bibb, Henry (1815-1854)
  • Biko, Stephen (1946-1977)
  • Black Aesthetic
  • Black Arts Movement
  • Black Churches and African American Spirituality
  • Black Churches in the United States
  • Black Cinema
  • Black Consciousness Movement
  • Black Marxism
  • Black Panther Party
  • Black Paris/Paris Noir
  • Black Populism (1886-1898)
  • Black Power Movement in the United States
  • Black Seminoles
  • Black Seminoles at Red Bays, Bahamas
  • Black/Africana Studies in the United States
  • Black/Blackness: Philosophical Considerations
  • Blocos Afros and Afoxés
  • Bluefields
  • Blues: A Continuum from Africa
  • Blyden, Edward Wilmot (1832-1912)
  • Boggs, James (1919-1993), and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-)
  • Bois Caiman and Boukman
  • Bolivia: The African Presence
  • Boulogne, Joseph Chevalier de Saint-George (1739?-1799)
  • Brand, Dionne (1953-)
  • Brathwaite, Kamau (1930-)
  • Brazil: Afro-Brazilians
  • Briggs, Cyril V. (1887-1966)
  • Brixton
  • Brodber, Erna (1940-)
  • Brooklyn
  • Brown, Elaine (1943-)
  • Butler, Octavia Estelle (1947-2005)
  • Cabral, Amilcar Lopes (1924-1973)
  • Cachoeira
  • Calalu/Callaloo
  • Calypso
  • Campbell, Grace P. (1883-1940)
  • Canada and African American Refugee Settlements
  • Canada and the African Diaspora
  • Candomblé
  • Cannes Brûlées
  • Cape Verde
  • Capitalism and Slavery
  • Caribbean Black Power
  • Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM)
  • Caribbean Migrations: The Caribbean Diaspora
  • Carnival
  • Carver, George Washington (1864-1943)
  • Casely-Hayford, Joseph Ephraim (1866-1930)
  • Central America: African Footprints
  • Central Asia and the Caucasus: The African Presence
  • Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais (CEAO)
  • Césaire, Aimé (1913-2008)
  • Césaire, Suzanne (1915-1966)
  • Chile: Afro-Chileans
  • China and Japan: African and East Asian Relations
  • Christian, Barbara (1943-2000)
  • Christophe, Henri (1767?-1820)
  • Clarke, Austin (1934-)
  • Clarke, George Elliot (1960-)
  • Clarke, John Henrik (1915-1998)
  • Clarke, Leroy (1938-)
  • Cleaver, Eldridge Leroy (1935-1998)
  • Cointelpro
  • Collins, Merle (1950-)
  • Colombia: Afro-Colombians
  • Colored Farmers Alliance
  • Combahee River Collective (CRC)
  • Condé, Maryse (1937-)
  • Confiant, Raphaël (1951-)
  • Cook, Mercer (1903-1987)
  • Cooper, Anna Julia (1859-1964)
  • Corrido
  • Cox, Oliver Cromwell (1901-1974)
  • Coyolillo/Coyoleños
  • Creole, Creolity, Creolization
  • Creole Incident
  • Cromanti
  • Cruz, Celia (1924-2003)
  • Cruz, Manoel de Almeida (1950-2004)
  • Cuba: Afro-Cubans
  • Cuban Intervention in Angola
  • Cuban Revolution and the African Diaspora
  • Cugoano, Ottobah (ca. 1757-ca. 1791).
  • v. 2. Da Silva, Benedita (1942-)
  • Dalits: The Black Untouchables of India
  • Damas, Léon-Gontran (1912-1976)
  • Dance in the African Diaspora
  • Dance Theatre of Harlem
  • Dangarembga, Tsitsi (1959-)
  • Danish West Indies: Oldendorp's 18th-Century Findings
  • Danticat, Edwidge (1969-)
  • Davis, Angela (1944-)
  • De Almeida, José Lino Alves (1958-2006)
  • De Oxóssi, Mãe Stella (1925-)
  • Decolonization
  • Delta Sigma Theta
  • Dessalines, Jean-Jacques (1758-1806)
  • La Diablesse
  • Diaspora Literacy
  • Diaspora Vibe Gallery
  • Diasporic Marronage
  • Diop, Cheikh Anta (1923-1986)
  • Domingo, Wilfred Adolphus (1889-1968)
  • Dominica
  • Dominican Republic
  • Douglas, Aaron (1899-1979)
  • Douglass, Frederick (1818-1895)
  • Dracius, Suzanne (1951-)
  • Dravidians
  • Drum
  • Du Sable, Jean-Baptiste Pointe (1745-1818)
  • DuBois, William Edward Burghardt (1868-1963)
  • Dunham, Katherine (1909-2006)
  • East African Community (EAC)
  • Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)
  • Ecuador: Afro-Ecuadorians
  • Edgell, Zee (1940-)
  • El Moudjahid
  • Elder, Jacob Delworth (1914-2004)
  • Environmental Justice
  • Equiano, Olaudah (1745-1797)
  • Esmeraldas
  • Europe and the African Diaspora
  • -- Falucho (?-1824)
  • Fanon, Frantz (1925-1961)
  • Febres, Mayra Santos (1966-)
  • Federal Writers' Project (FWP)
  • Feminism: Black Feminist Movement in the United States
  • Feminism and Black Women in the African Diaspora
  • Fespaco and African Film Festivals
  • Filhos de Gandhy
  • Fisk University
  • Florida Memorial University
  • Flying Africans
  • Fourah Bay College
  • France and the African Diaspora
  • Francois, Elma (1897-1944)
  • Garifuna
  • Garvey, Amy Ashwood (1897-1969)
  • Garvey, Amy Jacques (1895-1973)
  • Garvey, Marcus Mosiah (1887-1940)
  • Geographers, Arab/African
  • Gerima, Haile (1946-)
  • Germany and the African Diaspora
  • Ghana
  • Gilroy, Beryl Agatha (1924-2001)
  • Glissant, Edouard (1928-)
  • Goodison, Lorna (1947-)
  • Grenada
  • Griots/Griottes of West Africa
  • Grito de Yara
  • Guadeloupe
  • Guillén, Nicolás (1902-1989)
  • Guimarães, Geni (1947-)
  • Gumbo
  • Guyana
  • Haile Selassie I (1892-1975)
  • Hair
  • Haiti
  • Haitian Revolution
  • Hampton Institute/Hampton University
  • Harlem
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Haywood, Harry (1898-1978)
  • Health in the African World
  • Heath, Roy (1926-)
  • Hector, Leonard Tim (1942-2002)
  • Highlife
  • Hilliard, Asa G. (1933-2007)
  • Hip-Hop, Cuban
  • Hip-Hop, Latin American
  • Hip-Hop Culture in the African Diaspora
  • Holiday, Billie (1915-1959)
  • Honduras and Nicaragua: Miskito Indians
  • Hopkinson, Nalo (1950-)
  • Horton, James Africanus Beale (1835-1883)
  • Howard University
  • Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)
  • Huiswoud, Otto (1893-1961)
  • Hurston, Zora Neale (1891-1960)
  • Ibeji
  • Ibo Landing
  • Ilê Aiyê
  • Incense
  • India and the African Diaspora
  • Indian Ocean and the African Diaspora
  • Indians and the African Diaspora in the Caribbean
  • Indigo
  • Indonesia and Africa
  • The Institute of the Black World
  • Iraq: The African Presence in Early Iraq
  • Irmandade de Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte
  • Jackson, George Lester (1941-1971)
  • Jamaica
  • James, Cyril Lionel Robert (1901-1989)
  • Jazz
  • Jazz and Blues Singers, Black Women
  • Jerk Seasoning
  • Jim Crow
  • Johnson, J. Rosamond (1873-1954)
  • Johnson, James Weldon (1871-1938)
  • Johnson, Linton Kwesi (1952-)
  • Jones, Claudia Cumberbatch (1915-1964)
  • Junkanoo
  • Kali
  • Kalimba
  • Kappa Alpha Psi
  • Keens-Douglas, Richardo (1953-)
  • Kenyatta, Jomo (1889-1978)
  • Kincaid, Jamaica (1949-)
  • King, B. B. (1925-)
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968)
  • KRS-ONE (1965-)
  • Kwanzaa
  • Lam, Wilfredo (1902-1982)
  • Lamming, George (1927-)
  • Langston, John Mercer (1829-1897)
  • Langston University and HBCUs
  • Latino, Juan (ca. 1516-1606)
  • Lawrence, Jacob (1917-2000)
  • Legba
  • Légitime défense
  • Liberia
  • "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
  • Lincoln, Abbey (1930-)
  • Lincoln University
  • Lino Alves de Almeida, José (1958-2006)
  • Locke, Alain (1886-1954)
  • Lorde, Audre (1934-1992)
  • L'Ouverture, Toussaint (ca. 1744-1803)
  • Lovelace, Earl (1935-)
  • Lumumba, Patrice Emery (1925-1961)
  • Maceo y Grajales, Antonio (1845-1896)
  • Macumba
  • Mahdi Rebellion
  • Makandal, François (?-1758)
  • Malcolm X (1925-1965)
  • Male Revolt
  • Mandela, Nelson Rolihlahla (1918-)
  • Mandela, Winnie (1936-)
  • Maran, René (1887-1960)
  • Marassa
  • Marley, Robert Nesta (Bob) (1945-1981)
  • Maroon and Marronage
  • Marshall, Paule (1929-)
  • Marshall, Thurgood (1908-1993)
  • Marson, Una (1905-1965)
  • Martinique
  • Mau Mau
  • Mbari Club
  • M'bow, Amadou Makhtar (1921-)
  • McKay, Claude (1889-1948)
  • McRae, Carmen (1920-1994)
  • McWatt, Tessa (1959-)
  • Medici, Alessandro de (1510-1537)
  • Mestizo
  • Mexico: African Heritage
  • Middle Passage
  • Miseducation and Contemporary Urban Black America
  • Montgomery Bus Boycott
  • Moore, Queen Mother (1898-1997)
  • Moore, Richard B. (1893-1978)
  • Morehouse College
  • Morejón, Nancy (1944-)
  • Morrison, Toni (1931-)
  • Mos Def (1973-)
  • Movimento Negro Unificado
  • Mtoro bin Mwinyi Bakari (1860-1927)
  • Mulatta
  • Mutabaruka (1952-).
  • v. 3. Nascimento, Abdias do (1914-)
  • Nation of Islam
  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
  • National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO)
  • National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (N'COBRA)
  • Négritude
  • Netherlands Antilles and the African Diaspora
  • Netherlands East Indies: African Soldiers
  • Newton, Huey Percy (1942-)
  • Nichols, Grace (1950-)
  • Nkrumah, Kwame (1909-1972)
  • Notting Hill Carnival
  • Nova Scotia and the African American Diaspora
  • Nubia
  • Obeah
  • Ogou/Ogoun
  • Okpewho, Isidore (1941-)
  • Old Hige
  • Olodum
  • Optiz, May Ayim (1960-1996)
  • Ortiz, Fernando (1881-1969)
  • Osun (Oxum/Ochun/Oshun)
  • Oya
  • Pacific: The African Diaspora
  • Padmore, George (1901-1959)
  • Palcy, Euzhan (1957-)
  • Pan-Africanism
  • Panama: Afro-Panamanians
  • Pattillo, Walter Alexander (1850-1908)
  • Payada
  • People with Their Feet on Backward
  • Peru: Afro-Peruvians
  • Petwo
  • Phi Beta Sigma
  • Philip, Marlene Nourbese (1947-)
  • Philosophers and the African American Experience
  • Photography and the African Diaspora
  • Portalatin, Aida Cartagena (1918-1994)
  • Présence Africaine
  • Primus, Pearl E. (1919-1994)
  • Prince, Mary (1788-?)
  • Prince Hall Masons
  • The Provincial Freeman
  • Puerto Rico: Afro-Puerto Ricans
  • Pushkin, Alexander Sergeevich (1799-1837)
  • Quilombhoje
  • Rada
  • Raizales
  • Randolph, Asa Philip (1889-1979)
  • Rap/Rappin'
  • Rapso
  • Rastafarianism
  • Rayner, John Baptis (1850-1918)
  • Reagon, Bernice Johnson (1942-)
  • Reggae
  • Reparations
  • The Republic of New Africa
  • Ribeiro, Esmeralda (1958-)
  • Robeson, Paul (1898-1976)
  • Rodney, Walter (1942-1980)
  • Rogers, Joel Augustus (1880-1966)
  • Rolling Calf
  • Ross, Jacob (1956-)
  • Rufino, Alzira (1949-)
  • Salsa
  • Salt and the African Diaspora
  • Salvador da Bahia
  • Samba
  • Samba Schools
  • Samedi/Baron Samedi
  • San Mateo de Cangrejos
  • Sancho, Ignatius (1729-1780)
  • Sankofa
  • Santería
  • Santiago de Cuba
  • Schomburg, Arturo Alfonso (1874-1938)
  • Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  • Scott, Hazel (1920-1981)
  • Seychelles Islands
  • Shadd Cary, Mary Ann (1823-1893)
  • Shakur, Assata Olugbala (1946-)
  • Shakur, Tupac Amaru (1971-1996)
  • Shange, Ntozake (1948-)
  • Shango
  • Siddis in North Karnataka, India: Biomedical Status
  • Signifying
  • Simone, Nina (1933-2003)
  • Sistren
  • Sojourners for Truth and Justice
  • Soukous
  • Soul Music
  • Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
  • Soyinka, Akinwande Oluwole (1934-)
  • Spelman College
  • Spiritual Shouter Baptist Religion
  • Sport and the African Diaspora
  • Sri Lankan African Diaspora
  • Steelpan
  • Stono Rebellion
  • Sugar Cane and the African Diaspora
  • Suriname: The Ndyuka Maroons
  • Sutherland, Efua Theodora (1924-1996)
  • Swahili
  • Sweet Honey in the Rock
  • Tango, Candombe, Milonga
  • The African Diaspora in Asia (TADIA)
  • Thiong'o, Ngugi wa (1938-)
  • Thomas, Piri (1928-)
  • Till, Emmett (1941-1955)
  • Tolson, Melvin Beaunoris (1898-1966)
  • Tonton Macoutes
  • Tosh, Peter (1944-1987)
  • Transatlantic Slave Trade
  • Transition
  • Tribe and Tribalism
  • Trinadade, Solano (1908-1974)
  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • Trinidad and Tobago: African Impact on the Social Order
  • Tropiques
  • Truth, Sojourner (ca. 1797-1883)
  • Ture, Kwame (1941-1998)
  • Turkey: Afro-Turk
  • Turner, Nat (1800-1831)
  • Tuskegee Institute/Tuskegee University
  • Tynes, Maxine (1949-)
  • Uncle Tom and Tom Shows
  • United Kingdom: The African Diaspora
  • The University of Woodford Square
  • Uruguay: Afro-Uruguayans
  • VanDerZee, James (1886-1983)
  • Van Sertima, Ivan (1935-)
  • Venezuela: Afro-Venezuelans and the Afro Descendientes Movement
  • Veracruz
  • Vieux-Chauvet, Marie (1916-1973)
  • Virgin Islands
  • Vodoun
  • Wailer, Bunny (1947-)
  • Walcott, Derek Alton (1930-)
  • Walker, Alice (1944-)
  • Walker, David (1785-1830)
  • Walker, George William (1873-1911)
  • Walker, Sheila Suzanne (1944-)
  • Ward, Frederick (1937-)
  • Warner-Vieyra, Myriam (1939-)
  • Water Mama/Mami Wata
  • Wells-Barnett, Ida B. (1862-1931)
  • West African Students Union (WASU)
  • West India Regiments
  • Western Hemisphere African Diaspora Network (WHADN)
  • Wheatley, Phillis (ca. 1753-1784)
  • Williams, Chancellor (1898-1992)
  • Williams, Egbert Austin (1874-1922)
  • Williams, Eric Eustace (1911-1981)
  • Williams, Henry Sylvester (1869-1911)
  • Wolof
  • Women and Islam
  • Woods, David (1959-)
  • World Congress of Black Writers and Artists
  • Wright, Richard (1908-1960)
  • Yaad Hip-Hop
  • Yanga and Cimarronaje in Mexico
  • Yemoja/Olokun
  • Zami
  • Zanj (Zinj, Zang)
  • Zanzibar and the Southwest Indian Ocean in the African Diaspora
  • Zeta Phi Beta
  • Zobel, Joseph (1915-2006)
  • Zouk
  • Zumbí of Palmares (1655-1695).
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  • 9781851097050 (electronic bk.)
  • 1851097058 (electronic bk.)
OCLC
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