Diasporic identities within Afro-Hispanic and African contexts / edited by Yaw Agawu-Kakraba and Komla Aggor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Agawu-Kakraba, Yaw, editor.

Aggor, Komla F., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African diaspora.

Africans--Foreign countries--Ethnic identity.

Africans.

Africans--Foreign countries--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (122 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

Diasporic Identities within Afro-Hispanic and African Contexts explores the complexities underlying the identity formation of peoples of African ancestry in the Spanish-speaking world and of expatriate immigrants who inhabit colonized territories in Africa. Although current diaspora studies provide provocative perspectives on migration that have various cultural, national, political and economic implications, any engagement of the subject readily runs into theoretical and practical challenges. At stake here is the question of finding an ideal conceptualization of diaspora. Should the term be l

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8389-1

OCLC:

924632083