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Title:The African diaspora and the disciplines
Editors:Olaniyan, TejumolaISNI
Sweet, James HokeISNI
Year:2010
Pages:363
Language:English
City of publisher:Bloomington, IN
Publisher:Indiana University Press
ISBN:0253354641; 9780253354648; 0253221919; 9780253221919
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:diasporas
research
African studies
conference papers (form)
2006
Abstract:Focusing on the problems and conflicts of doing African diaspora research from various disciplinary perspectives, these essays situate, describe, and reflect on the current practice of diaspora scholarship. The international group of contributors assembled seek to enlarge understanding of how the diaspora is conceived and explore possibilities for the future of its study. With the aim of initiating interdisciplinary dialogue on the practice of African diaspora studies, they emphasize learning from new perspectives that take advantage of intersections between disciplines. Contents: Introduction (Tejumola Olaniyan and James H. Sweet). - Part 1 Histories - Clio and the griot: the African diaspora in the discipline of history (Kim D. Butler); African diaspora and anthropology (Richard Price); How genetics can provide detail to the transatlantic African diaspora (Fatimah L. C. Jackson and Latifa F. J. Borgelin); Landscapes and places of memory: African diaspora research and geography (Judith A. Carney); African diaspora in archaeology (Theresa A. Singleton). - Part 2 Social sciences - Caribbean sociology, Africa, and the African diaspora (Paget Henry); African diaspora and political science (Robert Fatton Jr.); The African diaspora and philosophy (Olúfémi Táíwò). - Part 3 Arts and culture - 'Function at the junction'? African diaspora studies and theatre studies (Sandra L. Richards); Ethnomusicology and the African diaspora (Melvin L. Butler); Semioptics of Africana art history (Moyo Okediji); Out of context: thinking cultural studies diasporically (Grant Farred). - Part 4 Diaspora contexts - African diaspora studies in the Creole-Anglophone Caribbean: a perspective from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica (Carolyn Cooper); South Africa's elusive quest for an African identity: the ironies of a South Africa-led African Renaissance (Xolela Mangcu); 'Black folk here and there': repositioning other(ed) African diaspora(s) in/and 'Europe' (Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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