African Diaspora Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization

Name: African Diaspora Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization
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ISBN: 9781580464536

ISBN-10: 158046453X

ISBN-13: 9781580464536

Edition: 2014

Authors: Toyin Falola

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The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the present, millions of Africans have been dispersed--many of them forcibly, others driven by economic need or political persecution--to other continents, creating large communities with African origins living outside their native lands. The majority of these communities are in North America. This historic displacement has meant that Africans are irrevocably connected to economic and political developments in the West and globally. Among the known legacies of the diaspora are slavery, colonialism, racism, poverty, and underdevelopment, yet the ways in which these same factors…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Publication date: 8/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 454
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.90" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

Toyin Falola, the Frances Higginbothom Nalle Centennial Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, is author of The Culture and Customs of Nigeria.Matt D. Childs is Assistant Professor in Caribbean History at Florida State University.