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Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora » Read Now
by Joseph E. Harris. 534 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora collects selected essays from the First and Second African Diaspora Institutes and other essays. This revised second edition, with broader geographical scope than the first edition, places greater emphasis on historical and sociopolitical analysis. New...
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Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora collects selected essays from the First and Second African Diaspora Institutes and other essays. This revised second edition, with broader geographical scope than the first edition, places greater emphasis on historical and sociopolitical analysis. New essays that examine the African experience and slavery in the Mediterranean, the black experience in Brazil, African religious retentions in Latin American countries, and essays by women that focus on the experience and contributions of African women of the diaspora address significant areas omitted in the first volume.
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Invisible Sojourners: African Immigrant Diaspora in the United States » Read Now
by John A. Arthur. 200 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

Arthur examines the forces that have shaped recent African migration to the United States, looking at the characteristics of the African immigrant population, residential and settlement patterns, family and household structure, labor force participation, and pathways to American citizenship. The...
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Arthur examines the forces that have shaped recent African migration to the United States, looking at the characteristics of the African immigrant population, residential and settlement patterns, family and household structure, labor force participation, and pathways to American citizenship. The meanings of the migratory process as well as relationships with the dominant society, and intra immigrant associative networks also are analyzed.
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Working the Spirit: Ceremonies of the African Diaspora » Read Now
by Joseph M. Murphy. 263 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library
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Place, Politics, and the Performing Arts in the African Diaspora, in The Western Journal of Black Studies » Read Now
by Rhett Jones. 9 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

...and the Performing Arts in the African Diaspora. by RHETT JONES...control of space in Africa and the African diaspora. Controlling Black Places...the various cultures of...
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Engendering Forced Migration: Theory and Practice » Read Now
by Doreen Indra. 400 pgs.

Collections: Entire Library

As the millennium approaches, war, political oppression, desperate poverty, environmental degradation and disasters are increasing the world's millions of forced immigrants. This text provides gendered case studies from around the world.
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Old Ship of Zion: The Afro-Baptist Ritual in the African Diaspora » Read Now
by Walter F. Pitts. 194 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

This book retraces the African origins of African-American forms of worship. During a five-year period in the field, Pitts played the piano at and recorded numerous worship services in black Baptist churches throughout rural Texas. His historical comparisons and linguistic analyses of this material...
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This book retraces the African origins of African-American forms of worship. During a five-year period in the field, Pitts played the piano at and recorded numerous worship services in black Baptist churches throughout rural Texas. His historical comparisons and linguistic analyses of this material uncover striking parallels between "Afro-Baptist" services and the religious rituals of Western and Central Africa, as well as other African-derived rituals in the United States Sea Islands, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Pitts demonstrates that African and African-American worship share an underlying binary ritual frame: the somber melancholy of the first frame and the high emotion of the second frame. Pitts's revealing perspective on this often misunderstood aspect of African-American religion provides an investigative model for the study of diaspora cultural practices and the residual influence of their African sources.
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Mythatypes: Signatures and Signs of African/Diaspora and Black Goddesses » Read Now
by Alexis Brooks De Vita, Ralph J. Hexter. 188 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

Dr. Alexis Brooks De Vita analyzes African/Diaspora women's literary voices and images in ways which enhance and expand upon their unique--and uniquely inherited--symbols of female power. She identifies goddesses and ancestresses interacting in tales of literary heroines, reading individual stories...
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Dr. Alexis Brooks De Vita analyzes African/Diaspora women's literary voices and images in ways which enhance and expand upon their unique--and uniquely inherited--symbols of female power. She identifies goddesses and ancestresses interacting in tales of literary heroines, reading individual stories against and within their timeless and dynamic historico-spiritual communities.
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The African Diaspora and the 'Black Atlantic': An African American Perspective, in Negro History Bulletin » Read Now
by J. Blaine Hudson. 8 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...The African Diaspora and the Black Atlantic: an African...Since the late 1800s, the term "African Diaspora" has been applied to the forced migration...on May 13, 1888.(1)...
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Black Leadership (Chap. 7 "Political Intellectuals in the African Diaspora") » Read Now
by Manning Marable. 229 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

At the heart of this major statement on black political, intellectual, and religious leaders of 20th-century America are critical portraits of four leaders whose legacies speak to the challenges of race, class, and power: Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Harold Washington, and Louis Farrakhan.
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Captain Paul Cuffe's Logs and Letters, 1808-1817: A Black Quaker's "Voice from within the Veil" (Introduction: "The African Diaspora in British North America in the Time of Paul Cuffe") » Read Now
by Rosalind Cobb Wiggins, Paul Cuffe. 533 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...for worship. INTRODUCTION The African Diaspora in British North America in...unfamiliar with the history of the African diaspora. Moreover, Cuffe himself was...To...
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Time in the Black Experience (Chap. 11 "Time in the African Diaspora: The Gullah Experience") » Read Now
by Joseph K. Adjaye. 236 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

In the first book which deals entirely with the subject of time in Africa and the Black Diaspora, Adjaye presents ten critical case studies of selected communities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the American South. The essays cover a wide spectrum of manifestations of temporal experience, including...
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In the first book which deals entirely with the subject of time in Africa and the Black Diaspora, Adjaye presents ten critical case studies of selected communities in Africa, the Caribbean, and the American South. The essays cover a wide spectrum of manifestations of temporal experience, including cosmological and genealogical time, physical and ecological cycles, time and worldview, social rhythm, agricultural and industrial time, and historical processes and consciousness. The studies confirm the continuity of temporal experience among Africans from pre-colonial times, through the colonial period in Africa, across continents through slavery and Maroon societies, to present-day communities like the Gullah of the Sea Islands of South Carolina. The subject of time, now recognized to be relative rather than uniform, draws together evidence from a variety of disciplines, specifically history, linguistics, political science, anthropology, and philosophy.
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