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The Future Is Now: A New Look at African Diaspora Studies is an exciting collection of essays representative of new voices in this ever-expanding field. Writing in English, Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole, the volume's contributors look at the fields

African diaspora. --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Black diaspora --- Diaspora, African --- Human geography --- Migrations --- Transatlantic slave trade

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Archetypes of Transition in Diaspora Art and Ritual examines residually oral conventions that shape the black diaspora imaginary in the Caribbean and America. Colonial humanist violations and inverse issues of black cultural and psychological affirmation are indexed in terms of a visionary gestalt according to which inner and outer realities unify creatively in natural and metaphysical orders. Paul Griffith's central focus is hermeneutical, examining the way in which religious and secular symbols inherent in rite and word as in vodun, limbo, the spirituals, puttin' on ole massa, and dramatic and narrative structures, for example, are made basic to the liberating post-colonial struggle. This evident interpenetration of political and religious visions looks back to death-rebirth traditions through which African groups made sense of the intervention of evil into social order. Herein, moreover, the explanatory, epistemic, and therapeutic structures of art and ritual share correspondences with the mythic archetypes that Carl Jung posits as a psychological inheritance of human beings universally.--

African diaspora --- Black diaspora --- Diaspora, African --- Human geography --- Africans --- Transatlantic slave trade --- Migrations

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This volume explores the lives and activities of people of African descent in Europe between the 1880s and the beginning of the twenty-first century. It goes beyond the still-dominant Anglo-American or transatlantic focus of diaspora studies to examine the experiences of black and white Africans, Afro-Caribbeans and African Americans who settled or travelled in Germany, France, Portugal, Italy and the Soviet Union, as well as in Britain. At the same time, while studies of Africans in Europe have tended to focus on the relationship between colonial (or former colonial) subjects and their respective metropolitan nation states, the essays in this volume widen the lens to consider the skills, practices and negotiations called for by other kinds of border-crossing: The subjects of these essays include people moving between European states and state jurisdictions or from the former colony of one state to another place in Europe, African-born colonial settlers returning to the metropolis, migrants conversing across ethnic and cultural boundaries among ℗'Africans℗', and visitors for whom the face-to-face encounter with European society involves working across the ℗'colour line℗' and testing the limits of solidarity. Case studies of family life, community-building and politics and cultural production, drawing on original research, illuminate the transformative impact of those journeys and encounters and the forms of ℗'transnational practice℗' that they have generated. The contributors include specialist scholars in social history, art history, anthropology, cultural studies and literature, as well as a novelist and a filmmaker who reflect on their own experiences of these complex histories and the challenges of narrating them.

Africans --- African diaspora. --- Black diaspora --- Diaspora, African --- Human geography --- Ethnology --- Migrations --- Europe --- Africa --- Civilization --- African influences. --- Transatlantic slave trade

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The book presents a thorough study of the changing landscape of state-diaspora relations in Africa, as well as a robust analysis of diaspora engagement policies being pursued across the continent. As the Africa diaspora strengthens its socio-economic and political clout, countries of origin in Africa have sought to engage their citizens living abroad. Over the past decade, the role of diaspora in the homeland development has become a core tenet of national strategies and policies. Against the backdrop of expanding globalization and deepening regional integration, the book presents a thorough study of the changing landscape of state-diaspora relations in Africa, as well as a robust analysis of diaspora engagement policies being pursued across the continent as states seek to extend rights to and extract obligations from their global citizens. .

African diaspora. --- Black diaspora --- Diaspora, African --- Human geography --- Africans --- Migrations --- Africa --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Emigration and immigration. --- Africa-History. --- African History. --- Africa—History.

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Activating the Past explores critical historical events and transformations associated Other embodied memories in the Black Atlantic world. The assembled case-studies disclose hidden historical references to local and regional encounters Other Atlantic modernity, focusing on religious festivals that represent political and economic relationships in "fetishized" forms of power and value. Although memories of the slave trade are rarely acknowledged in West Africa and the Americas, they have ret...

African diaspora. --- Blacks --- Slavery --- Negroes --- Ethnology --- Black diaspora --- Diaspora, African --- Human geography --- Africans --- History. --- Historiography. --- Migrations --- Black persons --- Black people --- Transatlantic slave trade