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The African diaspora : slavery, modernity, and globalization / Toyin Falola.
LIBRA DT16.5 .F35 2013
Available from offsite location
- 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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