New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora: Between Uncharted Themes and Alternative Representations
edited by Rita Kiki Edozie, Glenn A. Chambers and Tama Hamilton-Wray
Michigan State University Press, 2018 Cloth: 978-1-61186-302-4 | eISBN: 978-1-62895-346-6 Library of Congress Classification DT16.5.N497 2018 Dewey Decimal Classification 304.8096
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This anthology presents a new study of the worldwide African diaspora by bringing together diverse, multidisciplinary scholarship to address the connectedness of Black subject identities, experiences, issues, themes, and topics, applying them dynamically to diverse locations of the Blackworld—Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States. The book underscores three dimensions of African diaspora study. First is a global approach to the African diaspora, showing how globalism underscores the distinctive role that Africa plays in contributing to world history. Second is the extension of African diaspora study in a geographical scope to more robust inclusions of not only the African continent but also to uncharted paths and discoveries of lesser-known diaspora experiences and identities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Third is the illustration of universal unwritten cultural representations of humanities in the African diasporas that show the distinctive humanities’ disciplinary representations of Black diaspora imaginaries and subjectivities. The contributing authors inductively apply these themes to focus the reader’s attention on contemporary localized issues and historical arenas of the African diaspora. They engage their findings to critically analyze the broader norms and dimensions that characterize a given set of interrelated criteria that have come to establish parameters that increasingly standardize African diaspora studies.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
RITA KIKI EDOZIE is Professor of African Affairs in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance and Associate Dean at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. GLENN A. CHAMBERS is an Associate Professor of History and Director of the African American and African Studies program at Michigan State University. TAMA HAMILTON-WRAY is an Associate Professor at the Michigan State University Residential College in the Arts and Humanities and an independent filmmaker.
REVIEWS
“New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora pairs a candid enigma—what is the African diaspora?—with a set of essays that tackles the question from a variety of perspectives. The result is a rich set of debates that raise highly stimulating research questions. This is a very welcome volume for both lay readers and specialists.”
—ATO QUAYSON, Professor of English, New York University, and author of Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE and ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PART 1. NEW FRONTIERS
Diasporas of the Blackworld: Re-sculpting Themes, Expanding Scopes, and Recreating Disciplinary Representations, Rita Kiki Edozie with Glenn A. Chambers and Tama Hamilton-Wray
Mapping the Study of the African Diaspora: Classic Trends, New Themes, and Disciplinary Approaches, Glenn A. Chambers
African Diaspora Studies and the Global Black Experience: Evolving Scholarships, Expanding Fields, and a Deepening Discipline, Rita Kiki Edozie
PART 2. REPOSITIONING AFRICA
African Immigrants and the Creation of the Neo-Diaspora: Observing Routes, Themes, Trends, and Implications for the U.S. Hostland, Baffour K. Takyi
“Naija” Pride: Culturally Producing Self and Community in the New African Diaspora, Olaocha Nwadiuto Nwabara
Coloured South African Consciousness: Blurring the Lines of Identity Formation and Space, Blair Marcus Proctor
Africana Women Leaders of African Centered Education: A Portraiture of Mothering, Pan-Africanism, and Nation-Building in Africa, Tiffany Caesar
Through the Doors of Return: Paul Robeson and Miriam Makeba’s “Migration” to Africa, Dawne Y. Curry
The Cape Verdean Who Emigrates Never Puts Down Roots: Slavery, Colonialism, and Transnationalism in Shaping Cape Verdean Identity, J. Marlena Edwards
“Back to Africa” and the Heroic Black Student: Activism and Identity Construction in Post-Rebellion Detroit, David Mathew Walton
PART 3. UNCHARTED PATHS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Afro-Brazilian Politics and Representation: Between Race-Neutral and Race-Affirming Black Citizenship Struggles, Ollie A. Johnson III Quilombo Identity, Ethno-Commodification, and Tourism in Neoliberal Brazil, Merle L. Bowen
African Diasporas in Brazil React to Nollywood: Global Cultural Flows, Ideoscapes, and Postcolonial Representations, Kamahra Ewing
Vodou and the Haitian Struggle: An Afro-Caribbean Religion and the Politics of the Oppressed, Nathaniel S. Murrell
Contextualizing Women and Africa-Inspired Religious Practices in Oriente Cuba, Jualynne E. Dodson
A Lesser-Known Diaspora: African American Workers and the Development of Anti-Black Immigration Sentiment in Honduras, 1890–1906, Glenn A. Chambers
PART 4. HUMANITIES AFRICAN DIASPORAS
Return Film Narratives of the African Diaspora: Haile Gerima’s Teza, Tama Hamilton-Wray Garifuna in Peril: Film as Critical Pedagogy in the Garifuna Diaspora, Jennifer Goett
African Film Festivals: Representations and Social Constructions by African Diaspora Audiences in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, Mahomed Bamba
Artists, Activists, and Ethno-Historians: Community Builders, Identity Creators, and Civil Rights Pioneers in Afro-Peruvian Pueblos, 1800s–Present, Harcourt Fuller
Because the Spirits: Visualizing Connective Consciousness through Diasporic Aesthetic Imaginaries, Michael K. Wilson
Movements of the Female Body: Re-Imagining Black Diasporic Women’s Writing, Emilie N. Diouf
AFTERWORD, Jean Muteba Rahier
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New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora: Between Uncharted Themes and Alternative Representations
edited by Rita Kiki Edozie, Glenn A. Chambers and Tama Hamilton-Wray
Michigan State University Press, 2018 Cloth: 978-1-61186-302-4 eISBN: 978-1-62895-346-6
This anthology presents a new study of the worldwide African diaspora by bringing together diverse, multidisciplinary scholarship to address the connectedness of Black subject identities, experiences, issues, themes, and topics, applying them dynamically to diverse locations of the Blackworld—Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States. The book underscores three dimensions of African diaspora study. First is a global approach to the African diaspora, showing how globalism underscores the distinctive role that Africa plays in contributing to world history. Second is the extension of African diaspora study in a geographical scope to more robust inclusions of not only the African continent but also to uncharted paths and discoveries of lesser-known diaspora experiences and identities in Latin America and the Caribbean. Third is the illustration of universal unwritten cultural representations of humanities in the African diasporas that show the distinctive humanities’ disciplinary representations of Black diaspora imaginaries and subjectivities. The contributing authors inductively apply these themes to focus the reader’s attention on contemporary localized issues and historical arenas of the African diaspora. They engage their findings to critically analyze the broader norms and dimensions that characterize a given set of interrelated criteria that have come to establish parameters that increasingly standardize African diaspora studies.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
RITA KIKI EDOZIE is Professor of African Affairs in the Department of Conflict Resolution, Human Security, and Global Governance and Associate Dean at the McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. GLENN A. CHAMBERS is an Associate Professor of History and Director of the African American and African Studies program at Michigan State University. TAMA HAMILTON-WRAY is an Associate Professor at the Michigan State University Residential College in the Arts and Humanities and an independent filmmaker.
REVIEWS
“New Frontiers in the Study of the Global African Diaspora pairs a candid enigma—what is the African diaspora?—with a set of essays that tackles the question from a variety of perspectives. The result is a rich set of debates that raise highly stimulating research questions. This is a very welcome volume for both lay readers and specialists.”
—ATO QUAYSON, Professor of English, New York University, and author of Oxford Street, Accra: City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE and ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PART 1. NEW FRONTIERS
Diasporas of the Blackworld: Re-sculpting Themes, Expanding Scopes, and Recreating Disciplinary Representations, Rita Kiki Edozie with Glenn A. Chambers and Tama Hamilton-Wray
Mapping the Study of the African Diaspora: Classic Trends, New Themes, and Disciplinary Approaches, Glenn A. Chambers
African Diaspora Studies and the Global Black Experience: Evolving Scholarships, Expanding Fields, and a Deepening Discipline, Rita Kiki Edozie
PART 2. REPOSITIONING AFRICA
African Immigrants and the Creation of the Neo-Diaspora: Observing Routes, Themes, Trends, and Implications for the U.S. Hostland, Baffour K. Takyi
“Naija” Pride: Culturally Producing Self and Community in the New African Diaspora, Olaocha Nwadiuto Nwabara
Coloured South African Consciousness: Blurring the Lines of Identity Formation and Space, Blair Marcus Proctor
Africana Women Leaders of African Centered Education: A Portraiture of Mothering, Pan-Africanism, and Nation-Building in Africa, Tiffany Caesar
Through the Doors of Return: Paul Robeson and Miriam Makeba’s “Migration” to Africa, Dawne Y. Curry
The Cape Verdean Who Emigrates Never Puts Down Roots: Slavery, Colonialism, and Transnationalism in Shaping Cape Verdean Identity, J. Marlena Edwards
“Back to Africa” and the Heroic Black Student: Activism and Identity Construction in Post-Rebellion Detroit, David Mathew Walton
PART 3. UNCHARTED PATHS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Afro-Brazilian Politics and Representation: Between Race-Neutral and Race-Affirming Black Citizenship Struggles, Ollie A. Johnson III Quilombo Identity, Ethno-Commodification, and Tourism in Neoliberal Brazil, Merle L. Bowen
African Diasporas in Brazil React to Nollywood: Global Cultural Flows, Ideoscapes, and Postcolonial Representations, Kamahra Ewing
Vodou and the Haitian Struggle: An Afro-Caribbean Religion and the Politics of the Oppressed, Nathaniel S. Murrell
Contextualizing Women and Africa-Inspired Religious Practices in Oriente Cuba, Jualynne E. Dodson
A Lesser-Known Diaspora: African American Workers and the Development of Anti-Black Immigration Sentiment in Honduras, 1890–1906, Glenn A. Chambers
PART 4. HUMANITIES AFRICAN DIASPORAS
Return Film Narratives of the African Diaspora: Haile Gerima’s Teza, Tama Hamilton-Wray Garifuna in Peril: Film as Critical Pedagogy in the Garifuna Diaspora, Jennifer Goett
African Film Festivals: Representations and Social Constructions by African Diaspora Audiences in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, Mahomed Bamba
Artists, Activists, and Ethno-Historians: Community Builders, Identity Creators, and Civil Rights Pioneers in Afro-Peruvian Pueblos, 1800s–Present, Harcourt Fuller
Because the Spirits: Visualizing Connective Consciousness through Diasporic Aesthetic Imaginaries, Michael K. Wilson
Movements of the Female Body: Re-Imagining Black Diasporic Women’s Writing, Emilie N. Diouf
AFTERWORD, Jean Muteba Rahier
CONTRIBUTORS
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