African Diaspora A History Through Culture

Name: African Diaspora A History Through Culture
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ISBN: 9780231144711

ISBN-10: 0231144717

ISBN-13: 9780231144711

Edition: 2010

Authors: Patrick Manning

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Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In weaving these stories together, Manning shows how the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean fueled dynamic interactions among black communities and cultures and how these patterns resembled those of a number of connected diasporas concurrently taking shaping across the globe.Manning begins in 1400 and traces five central themes: the connections that enabled Africans to mutually…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 3/30/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.93" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



List of Maps


List of Graphs and Tables


List of Illustrations


Preface


Acknowledgments



Diaspora: Struggles and Connections



Connections to 1600



Survival, 1600–1800



Emancipation, 1800–1900



Citizenship, 1900–1960



Equality, 1960–2000


Epilogue: The Future of the African Diaspora


Notes


Index