... of sexual violence in Jamaica in 2017 as a point of departure to underscore the importance of performance in womanist, feminist, and decolonial knowledge-making in Africa and the African Diaspora. Black radical movements drums Revival Thiong’o Ngũgĩ wa archiving Ebanks Neila Edna Manley College...

... in the Andes and elsewhere in colonial Spanish America, the chapter reveals some important characteristics of the African Diaspora in the Iberian Atlantic World. It argues that the African Diaspora made a significant impact on the sixteenth-century Spanish Atlantic world, courtesy of Afro-Iberians who were...

... the asymmetries of Pan-African power in the late 1960s and 1970s. Africa African diaspora Autobiography of LeRoi Jones Baraka Baraka Amiri Black Arts movement class Lagos Nigeria Live on the Sunset Strip Pryor Pryor Richard Roots Haley United States Algiers Algeria Black intellectual community Dakar...

...This chapter explores the concept of the Middle Passage, which has attained iconic significance in African diaspora discourses. The concept refers to the transportation of numerous Africans across the Atlantic; difficult and pain-filled journeys across ocean space; dismemberment referring...

...This chapter uses the logic of the halo not in the way it appears in Christian iconography, but in the way the halo of what Haiti means radiates as a series of spatial principles across the African diaspora. The contradictory history of Haiti that produced today's American hemisphere's poorest...

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...”—and cultural production—that assume hierarchical oppositions of white and black, European and African, American and African American, modernist and popular, and written and vernacular. Hughes Langston Petry Ann African diaspora bebop Cold War Gillespie Dizzy Parker Charlie Baraka Amiri DeVeaux Scott...

... characteristics feminism international research sociolinguistic research academic California African Americans Black English African diaspora graduate education marriage and family studies Claudia Mitchell-Kernan received her PhD in anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969...

...This book expands the Diaspora framework that has shaped much of the recent scholarship on Africans in the Americas to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires. While a majority...

...This chapter examines the foundation of Diaspora dance and its relationship to African dance and music. It first considers the importance of dance in the African Diaspora and its relation to Caribbean dance before discussing the emergence of several types of African movement styles that echo across...

...This chapter examines the Carnival and other parade dancing that have brought the people of the African Diaspora together in festive merrymaking. More specifically, it highlights the Carnivalesque experience associated with Circum-Caribbean parading, from Carnaval in Cuba, Puerto...

... in which martial techniques were transported within enslaved bodies to parts of the African Diaspora. It then describes examples of Circum-Caribbean combat dance games, including ladja and danmyé in Martinique, juego de maní in Cuba, kalinda...

...This book expands the framework for charting the African Diaspora to Spanish America. Drawing upon a variety of texts from the Spanish American colonies, it explores the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African Diaspora in the Spanish empires. It examines what Leo...

...This chapter examines the intersections of race, ethnicity, and slavery in Spanish America and the African Diaspora by focusing on the development of African Diasporic ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650. Drawing on marriage records from early seventeenth-century Mexico City, it considers how Africans...

..., traditional expressive culture, and the complexity of their own history. Wright internationalizes the Chicago impulses coursing through the literary thought of his generation throughout the African diaspora. Brown Sterling Guillen Nicholas McCluskey John Jr Wright Richard Communist Party John Reed Club...

.... Employing poetry and vignettes, Johnson provides a participatory ethnography of African dance in Philadelphia rooted in scholarship and first-hand experience. West African dance class Philadelphia Pennsylvania community African Diaspora African ritual practices Afro Latin America and dance American...

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