The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities

The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities

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Book Description
These essays contribute to the debate between those who believe that the African origin of blacks in western society is central to their identity and outlook and those who deny that proposition. The contributors ponder the key questions underlying that controversy. Their 33 essays are divided into five main parts: The Diaspora: Orientation and Determinations; Addressing the Constraints; Race, Gender, and Image; Creativity, Spirituality, and Identity; and Reconnecting with Africa.

About the Author
Isidore Okpewho was Chair of Afro-American and African Studies at the State University of New York, Binghamton, and convener of the conference (in 1996) that gave rise to this book. Among his numerous scholarly books are African Oral Literature and Once Upon a Kingdom (both published by Indiana University Press). He is the author of three novels. His work Tides won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa in 1993. He has been a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center and at the National Humanities Center.

Carole Boyce Davies is Director of African-New World Studies and Professor of English at Florida International University. She is author of Migrations of the Subject: Black Women, Writing Identity and coeditor of Ngambika: Studies of Women in African Literature; Out of the Kumbla: Caribbean Women and Literature; and a two-volume collection of critical and creative writing, Moving beyond Boundaries (Volume 1: International Dimensions of Black Women's Writing, Volume 2: Black Women's Diasporas).

Ali A. Mazrui is Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at the State University of New York, Binghamton, and author of more than twenty books. He is best known for his BBC/PBS television series The Africans: A Triple Heritage. He is also Senior Scholar in Africana Studies at Cornell University and Walter Rodney Distinguished Professor at the University of Guyana.

The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities,Isidore Okpewho,Carole Boyce Davies,Ali Alamin Mazrui,Indiana University Press,0253214947,Europe - General,General,History,History: World,Sociology,Black studies,Cultural studies,Europe,History of specific racial & ethnic groups,Immigration & emigration

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