[PDF] Rethinking The African Diaspora eBook

Author : Edna G. Bay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 45,44 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1135310734

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As a result of new research, we can now paint a more complex picture of peoples and cultures in the south Atlantic, from the earliest period of the slave trade up to the present. The nine papers in this volume indicate that a dynamic and continuous movement of peoples east as well as west across the Atlantic forged diverse and vibrant re-inventions and re-interpretations of the rich mix of cultures represented by Africans and peoples of African descent on both continents.

Author : Ruth Simms Hamilton
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 26,28 MB
Release : 2007-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1628954604

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Routes of Passage provides a conceptual, substantive, and empirical orientation to the study of African people worldwide. Routes of Passage addresses issues of geographical mobility and geosocial displacement; changing cultural, political, and economic relationships between Africa and its diaspora; interdiaspora relations; political and economic agency and social mobilization, including cultural production and psychocultural transformation; existence in hostile and oppressive political and territorial space; and confronting interconnected relations of social inequality, especially class, gender, nationality, and race.

Author : Ruth Simms Hamilton
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2006-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1628954590

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Routes of Passage provides a conceptual, substantive, and empirical orientation to the study of African people worldwide. The book addresses issues of geographical mobility and geosocial displacement; changing culture, political, and economic relationships between Africa and its diaspora; interdiaspora relations; political and economic agency and social mobilization, including cultural production and psychocultural transformation; existence in hostile and oppressive political and territorial space; and confronting interconnected relations of social inequality, especially class, gender, nationality, and race.

Author : Behnaz A. Mirzai
Publisher :
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 16,31 MB
Release : 2018-11
Category : African diaspora
ISBN : 9781569026137

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Building on the UN proclamations on recognition and empowerment of people of African descent, and the renewed interest they have generated in African diaspora scholarship, this volume brings together the perspectives of experts from various disciplines on historical and contemporary challenges faced by peoples of African descendant, their survival strategies and cultural adaptations around the world.

Author : Michael A. Gomez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 110849871X

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Captures the essential political, cultural, social, and economic developments that shaped the black experience.

Author : Doctor Claire Mercer
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 32,46 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1848136447

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There has been much recent celebration of the success of African 'civil society' in forging global connections through an ever-growing diaspora. Against the background of such celebrations, this innovative book sheds light on the diasporic networks - 'home associations' - whose economic contributions are being used to develop home. Despite these networks being part of the flow of migrants' resources back to Africa that now outweighs official development assistance, the relationship between the flow of capital and social and political change are still poorly understood. Looking in particular at Cameroon and Tanzania, the authors examine the networks of migrants that have been created by making 'home associations' international. They argue that claims in favour of enlarging 'civil society' in Africa must be placed in the broader context of the political economy of migration and wider debates concerning ethnicity and belonging. They demonstrate both that diasporic development is distinct from mainstream development, and that it is an uneven historical process in which some 'homes' are better placed to take advantage of global connections than others. In doing so, the book engages critically with the current enthusiasm among policy-makers for treating the African diaspora as an untapped resource for combating poverty. Its focus on diasporic networks, rather than private remittances, reveals the particular successes and challenges diasporas face in acting as a group, not least in mobilising members of the diaspora to fulfill obligations to home.