African Diaspora and the Disciplines

Name: African Diaspora and the Disciplines
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ISBN: 9780253221919

ISBN-10: 0253221919

ISBN-13: 9780253221919

Edition: 2010

Authors: Tejumola Olaniyan, James H. Sweet, Moyo Okediji

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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 fill significant gaps in how the diaspora is conceived and explore possibilities for the future of its study. With the aim of initiating interdisciplinary dialogues 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…

Book details

Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/4/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Okediji uses the lens of visusl art to examine connections between the U.S. and the Yoruba region of western Nigeria, considering works by African and African American artists.



Acknowledgments


Introduction




Histories



Clio and the Griot: The African Diaspora in the Discipline of History




African Diaspora and Anthropology




How Genetics Can Provide Detail to the Transatlantic African Diaspora




Landscapes and Places of Memory: African Diaspora Research and Geography




African Diaspora in Archaeology




Social Sciences



Caribbean Sociology, Africa, and the African Diaspora




African Diaspora and Political Science




The African Diaspora and Philosophy




Arts and Culture



"Function at the Junction"? African Diaspora Studies and Theater Studies




Ethnomusicology and the African Diaspora




Semioptics of Africana Art History




Out of Context: Thinking Cultural Studies Diasporically




Diaspora Contexts



African Diaspora Studies in the Creole-Anglophone Caribbean: A Perspective from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica




South Africa's Elusive Quest for an African Identity: The Ironies of a South Africa-Led African Renaissance




"Black Folk Here and There": Repositioning Other(ed) African Diaspora(s) in/and "Europe"



Contributors


Index