Dimensions of African and other diasporas / edited by Franklin W. Knight and Ruth Iyob.

Author/creator Exploring Dimensions of African Diasporas
Format Book
Publication InfoKingston, Jamaica : University of the West Indies Press, 2014.
Descriptionvii, 324 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Other author/creatorIyob, Ruth, 1957- editor.
Other author/creatorKnight, Franklin W. editor.
Other author/creatorJohns Hopkins University. Center for Africana Studies, organizer.
Other author/creatorUniversity of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica). Press, publisher.
Contents Reflections on African diasporas in the Mediterranean world / Ruth Iyob -- Diaspora and empire: the case of the Armenians in pre-revolutionary Russia / Tamara Ganjalyan -- The Africanization of Amerindians in the greater Caribbean: The Wayuu and Miskito, fifteenth to eighteenth centuries / Christian Cwik -- African "nations" as diasporic institution-building in the Iberian Atlantic / Jane Landers -- The Chinese on the US-Mexico borderlands: strategic transnationalism during the exclusion era, 1882-1940 / Evelyn Hu-DeHart -- Caribbean identities, dance constructions and "crossroading" / Yvonne Daniel -- "The Spear is black with a pure gold point": articulations of "blackness" in Toronto during the 1970s / Michelle A. Johnson -- When diasporas meet: black solidarity and inter-ethnic intersections in the United States of America / Tommy L. Lott -- The perception of madness: escapes and flights of fancies in Claude McKay's Banana Bottom / Jarrett Hugh Brown -- The Caribbean diaspora and black internationalism / Winston James -- Black power in the African diaspora / Quito Swan.
General note" ... this volume ... had its genesis in an exciting international conference, "Exploring Dimensions of African Diasporas," held in Baltimore, Maryland, 26-27 April 2012, under the auspices of the Center for Africana Studies of the Johns Hopkins University."--p.vii.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN9789766404598
ISBN9766404593

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