The African Diaspora : Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Falola, Toyin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Univ Of Rochester Press, 2014.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Traite des esclaves > Afrique.
Transnationalisme.
Africains > États-Unis.
Mondialisation > Afrique.
Africains > À l'etranger.
Yoruba (African people)
Transnationalism.
Slave trade.
Globalization.
Africans.
African diaspora.
Slave trade > Africa.
Yoruba (African people) > United States.
Africans > United States.
Globalization > Africa.
United States.
Africa.
Movement of peoples.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the old and the new African diaspora
  • Part I. The old diaspora : slavery and identity politics
  • Africa and slavery in a transnational context
  • The slave mutiny of 1839 : the colonization of memory and spaces
  • The centralization of Africa and the intellectualization of blackness
  • Communalism, Africanism, and Pan-Africanism
  • Part II. An African case study : Yoruba ethnicity in the diaspora
  • Atlantic Yoruba and the expanding frontiers of Yoruba culture and politics
  • Politics, slavery, servitude, and the construction of Yoruba identity
  • Orisa music, dance, and modernity
  • Part III. The new diaspora : transnationalism and globalization
  • Western education and Transatlantic connections
  • Africa in the diaspora and the diaspora in Africa : toward an integrated body of knowledge
  • Tanure Ojaide and Akin Ogundiran : knowledge circulation and the diasporic interface
  • Nollywood and the creative world of Aderonke Adesola Adesanya : the African impact on global cultures
  • Globalization and contemporary cultures
  • Postscript: United States foreign policy on Africa in the twenty-first century.

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