Full Description
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. Tejumola Olaniyan, James H. Sweet, and the international group of contributors assembled here 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. Ultimately, they advocate a fuller sense of what it means to study the African diaspora in a truly global way.
Contents
Introduction / Tejumola Olaniyan and James H. Sweet
Part 1. Histories
1. Clio and the Griot: The African Diaspora in the Discipline of History / Kim D. Butler
2. African Diaspora and Anthropology / Richard Price
3. How Genetics Can Provide Detail to the Transatlantic African Diaspora / Fatimah L. C. Jackson and Latifa F. J. Borgelin
4. Landscapes and Places of Memory: African Diaspora Research and Geography / Judith A. Carney
5. African Diaspora in Archaeology / Theresa A. Singleton
Part 2. Social Sciences
6. Caribbean Sociology, Africa, and the African Diaspora / Paget Henry
7. African Diaspora and Political Science / Robert Fatton Jr.
8. The African Diaspora and Philosophy / Olúfémi Táíwò
Part 3. Arts and Culture
9. "Function at the Junction"? African Diaspora Studies and Theater Studies / Sandra L. Richards
10. Ethnomusicology and the African Diaspora / Melvin L. Butler
11. Semioptics of Africana Art History / Moyo Okediji
12. Out of Context: Thinking Cultural Studies Diasporically / Grant Farred
Part 4. Diaspora Contexts
13. African Diaspora Studies in the Creole-Anglophone Caribbean: A Perspective from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica / Carolyn Cooper
14. South Africa's Elusive Quest for an African Identity: The Ironies of a South Africa-Led African Renaissance / Xolela Mangcu
15. "Black Folk Here and There": Repositioning Other(ed) African Diaspora(s) in/and "Europe" / Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
Contributors
Index
