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The African diaspora : slavery, modernity, and globalization / Toyin Falola.

LIBRA DT16.5 .F35 2013
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Falola, Toyin.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
African diaspora.
Globalization--Africa.
Globalization.
Africa.
Africans--United States.
Africans.
United States.
Yoruba (African people)--United States.
Yoruba (African people).
Transnationalism.
Slave trade--Africa.
Slave trade.
Physical Description:
xiv, 418 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Rochester : University of Rochester Press, 2013.
Contents:
Introduction : the old and the new African diaspora
Africa and slavery in a transnational context
The slave mutiny of 1839 : the colonization of memory and spaces
The centralization of Africa and the intellectualization of blackness
Communalism, Africanism, and Pan-Africanism
Atlantic Yoruba and the expanding frontiers of Yoruba culture and politics
Politics, slavery, servitude, and the construction of Yoruba identity
Orisa music, dance, and modernity
Western education and Transatlantic connections
Africa in the diaspora and the diaspora in Africa : toward an integrated body of knowledge
Tanure Ojaide and Akin Ogundiran : knowledge circulation and the diasporic interface
Nollywood and the creative world of Aderonke Adesola Adesanya : the African impact on global cultures
Globalization and contemporary cultures
Postscript: United States foreign policy on Africa in the twenty-first century.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781580464529
1580464521
OCLC:
810119745

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