The African diaspora : African origins and new world identities / edited by Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, Ali A. Mazrui.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Okpewho, Isidore, editor.

Boyce Davies, Carole, editor.

Mazrui, Ali AlʼAmin, editor.

Series:

African Diaspora, 1860-Present (Text)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African diaspora.

Africans--America--History.

Africans.

Africans--America--Ethnic identity.

Africans--America--Intellectual life.

America--Race relations.

America.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 566 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed September 11, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

1130717829