Routes of Passage: Rethinking the African Diaspora
Volume 1, Part 2
Published on 26. July 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
268 pages
978-0-87013-692-4 (ISBN)
Description
Routes of Passage provides a conceptual, substantive, and empirical orientation to the study of African people worldwide. Routes of Passage addresses issues of geographical mobility and geosocial displacement; changing cultural, political, and economic relationships between Africa and its diaspora; interdiaspora relations; political and economic agency and social mobilization, including cultural production and psychocultural transformation; existence in hostile and oppressive political and territorial space; and confronting interconnected relations of social inequality, especially class, gender, nationality, and race.
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Language
English
Place of publication
East Lansing, MI
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
445 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87013-692-4 (9780870136924)
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Ruth Simms Hamilton was a teacher and researcher at Michigan State University for 35 years, who won many awards for her work. She was Professor of Sociology and Urban Affairs, Director of the African Diaspora Research Project, and a core faculty member of the African Studies Center and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Michigan State University.
Content
Contents
The Black Question in Brazil: An Issue Denied | Josildeth Gomes Consorte
The Evolution of Black Identity in the Dominican Republic | Edward Paulino
The Louvre Negresse: Interpretation and Illustration | Anne C. Meyering
The Politics of Space, the Poetics of Place: Africville, Africadia, and the African Diaspora in Canada | Raymond Familusi
Reflections on the African Diaspora in Israel, 1997 | Mark Shapley
Redefining a Collective Identity in the Struggle for State and National Identity in Ethiopia and Israel: The Case of Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) | Ruth Simms Hamilton with Getahun Benti
Asphalt Stages: Pickup Basketball and the Performance of Blackness | Michael Hanson
The Marimba Still Sounds: Building Cultural Pride and Political Resistance through Afro-Ecuadorian Music and Dance | Troy Peters
Transnational Politics: A Note on Black Americans and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 | Ruth Simms Hamilton
The African Diaspora in the Twenty-first Century: The Past Is Prologue | Elliott P. Skinner
Contributors
The Black Question in Brazil: An Issue Denied | Josildeth Gomes Consorte
The Evolution of Black Identity in the Dominican Republic | Edward Paulino
The Louvre Negresse: Interpretation and Illustration | Anne C. Meyering
The Politics of Space, the Poetics of Place: Africville, Africadia, and the African Diaspora in Canada | Raymond Familusi
Reflections on the African Diaspora in Israel, 1997 | Mark Shapley
Redefining a Collective Identity in the Struggle for State and National Identity in Ethiopia and Israel: The Case of Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) | Ruth Simms Hamilton with Getahun Benti
Asphalt Stages: Pickup Basketball and the Performance of Blackness | Michael Hanson
The Marimba Still Sounds: Building Cultural Pride and Political Resistance through Afro-Ecuadorian Music and Dance | Troy Peters
Transnational Politics: A Note on Black Americans and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 | Ruth Simms Hamilton
The African Diaspora in the Twenty-first Century: The Past Is Prologue | Elliott P. Skinner
Contributors