Research Catalog

Title

Dimensions of African and other diasporas / edited by Franklin W. Knight and Ruth Iyob.

Author

Exploring Dimensions of African Diasporas (2012 : Baltimore, Maryland)

Publication

Kingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Iyob, Ruth, 1957-
• Knight, Franklin W.
• Johns Hopkins University. Center for Africana Studies, organizer.
• University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica). Press publisher.

Description

vii, 324 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Diasporas comprise an inescapable part of the human experience and few are more interesting and diverse than African diasporas. By providing a panoramic view across time and geographical space this collection of essays illustrates the inherent variability of African, European and Asian diasporic formation. Even when such communities share a common origin, diasporas behave like living organisms that respond sensitively to specific geographical location as well as particular social, political and economic circumstances. Migration constitutes an essential prerequisite for diasporic formation. Once established diasporas assume a life of their own and sometimes form secondary diasporas and their histories make a significant contribution to comparative societal studies.

Subject

• African diaspora > Congresses
• Armenian diaspora > Congresses
• Black people > Latin America > Congresses
• Chinese diaspora > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• " ... this volume ... had its genesis in an exciting international conference, "Exploring Dimensions of African Diasporas," held in Baltimore, Maryland, 26-27 April 2012, under the auspices of the Center for Africana Studies of the Johns Hopkins University."--p.vii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Reflections on African diasporas in the Mediterranean world / Ruth Iyob -- Diaspora and empire: the case of the Armenians in pre-revolutionary Russia / Tamara Ganjalyan -- The Africanization of Amerindians in the greater Caribbean: The Wayuu and Miskito, fifteenth to eighteenth centuries / Christian Cwik -- African "nations" as diasporic institution-building in the Iberian Atlantic / Jane Landers -- The Chinese on the US-Mexico borderlands: strategic transnationalism during the exclusion era, 1882-1940 / Evelyn Hu-DeHart -- Caribbean identities, dance constructions and "crossroading" / Yvonne Daniel -- "The Spear is black with a pure gold point": articulations of "blackness" in Toronto during the 1970s / Michelle A. Johnson -- When diasporas meet: black solidarity and inter-ethnic intersections in the United States of America / Tommy L. Lott -- The perception of madness: escapes and flights of fancies in Claude McKay's Banana Bottom / Jarrett Hugh Brown -- The Caribbean diaspora and black internationalism / Winston James -- Black power in the African diaspora / Quito Swan.

ISBN

• 9789766404598
• 9766404593

OCLC

• 881665967
• SCSB-11239972

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library