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The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities
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Paperback. How black identities were forged in New World cultures. Editor(s): Okpewho, Isidore; Davies, Carole Boyce; Mazrui, Ali A. Num Pages: 600 pages, 33 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1D; HBTB; JFC; JFFN; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 32. Weight in Grams: 830.
The African Diaspora contributes to the debate between those who believe that the African origin of blacks in Western society is central to their identity and outlook and those who deny that proposition.
Contributors include Niyi Afolabi, Adetayo Alabi, Celia M. Azevedo, Antonio Benítez-Rojo, Eliana Guerreiro Ramos Bennett, LeGrace Benson, Ira Kincade Blake, Jack S. Blocker, Jr., Sharon Aneta Bryant, Michael J. C. Echeruo, Peter P. Ekeh, Patience Elabor-Idemudia, David Evans, Robert Elliot Fox, Andrea Frohne, Joseph E. Inikori, Joyce Ann Joyce, Joseph McLaren, Charles Martin, Ali A. Mazrui, Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure, Nkiru Nzegwu, Isidore Okpewho, Oyekan Owomoyela, Laura J. Pires-Hester, ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
Number of Pages
600
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253214942
SKU
V9780253214942
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99-1
About Various
Isidore Okpewho was Chair of Afro-American and African Studies at the State University of New York, Binghamton, and convener of the conference (in 1996) that gave rise to this book. Carole Boyce Davies is Director of African-New World Studies and Professor of English at Florida International University. Ali A. Mazrui is Director of the Institute of Global Cultural ... Read more
Reviews for The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities
The editorial goal of this collection, gathered from papers of a 1996 conference, is to deepen understanding of how transplanted African populations (and their descendants) interacted with the physical, cultural, and intellectual environment of the New World. This goal mandates an assessment of the survival of African origins—an ongoing debate between the Essentialist school (a strong and continuous African presence) ... Read more