Reconceptualizations of the African Diaspora (Volume 2009) (Radical History Review (Duke University Press)) - Softcover

Erica Ball; Melina Pappademos; Michelle Stephens

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822366967 ISBN 13: 9780822366966

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2008

Synopsis

This special issue of Radical History Review aims to revitalize African diaspora studies by shifting current emphases within the field. The contributors rethink current understandings of African and diaspora as a dispersal of Africans from the African continent via the Atlantic slave trade and offer reconceptualizations of dominant paradigms, such as home, origins, migrations, politics, blackness, African, Africa, African-descended, and Americanness.

The contributors draw on perspectives from political science, history, cultural studies, art history, anthropology, feminist theory, sexuality and queer studies, and Caribbean and African American studies. The collection addresses transnational discourses of race, gender, and sexuality in African diaspora politics, African diaspora experiences on the African continent, the politics of African-descended peoples in Europe, and creative uses of the discourses of memory and diaspora to support political organizing and local struggles. Essays on Venezuelans, Bolivians, and Mexicans address the status of race in the study of African-descended populations and cultures in Latin America. The issue also includes two essays that showcase African diasporic art and curatorial practices in the United States, the Caribbean, and the United Kingdom.

Contributors: Erica Ball, Anthony Bogues, Lisa Brock, Sara Busdiecker, Prudence Cumberbatch,Jacqueline Francis, Anita González, Amoaba Gooden, Dayo Gore, Laura A. Harris, Christopher J. Lee, Kevin Mumford, Melina Pappademos, Cristóbal Valencia Ramírez, Rochelle Rowe, Theresa Runstedtler, Michelle Ann Stephens, Tyler Stovall, Deborah Thomas, Leon Wainwright, Cadence Wynter, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

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About the Author

Erica Ball is Assistant Professor of American Studies at California State University, Fullerton. Melina Pappademos is Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Connecticut. Michelle Ann Stephens is Associate Professor of English at Colgate University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0822366967
• ISBN 13: 9780822366966
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246