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The African diaspora and the disciplines / edited by Tejumola Olaniyan and James H. Sweet

Published
Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 363 pages)
Additional Creators
Olaniyan, Tejumola and Sweet, James H. (James Hoke)
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Language Note
English.
Contents
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 -- 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 / Olufemi Taiwo -- 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 -- 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.
Summary
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.
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ISBN
9780253001337 (electronic bk.)
0253001331 (electronic bk.)
0253001544
0253355486
9780253354648
0253354641
9780253221919
0253221919
9780253355485
9780253001542
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Note
"Most of the book's chapters derive from a two-day international symposium held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in March 2006"--Acknowledgments
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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