Introduction / Tejumola Olaniyan and James H. Sweet
Part 1. Histories
1. Clio and the Griot: The African Diaspora in the Discipline of
History / Kim D. Butler
2. African Diaspora and Anthropology / Richard Price
3. How Genetics Can Provide Detail to the Transatlantic African
Diaspora / Fatimah L. C. Jackson and Latifa F. J. Borgelin
4. Landscapes and Places of Memory: African Diaspora Research and
Geography / Judith A. Carney
5. African Diaspora in Archaeology / Theresa A. Singleton
Part 2. Social Sciences
6. Caribbean Sociology, Africa, and the African Diaspora / Paget
Henry
7. African Diaspora and Political Science / Robert Fatton Jr.
8. The African Diaspora and Philosophy / Olúfémi Táíwò
Part 3. Arts and Culture
9. "Function at the Junction"? African Diaspora Studies and Theater
Studies / Sandra L. Richards
10. Ethnomusicology and the African Diaspora / Melvin L. Butler
11. Semioptics of Africana Art History / Moyo Okediji
12. Out of Context: Thinking Cultural Studies Diasporically / Grant
Farred
Part 4. Diaspora Contexts
13. African Diaspora Studies in the Creole-Anglophone Caribbean: A
Perspective from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica /
Carolyn Cooper
14. South Africa's Elusive Quest for an African Identity: The
Ironies of a South Africa–Led African Renaissance / Xolela
Mangcu
15. "Black Folk Here and There": Repositioning Other(ed) African
Diaspora(s) in/and "Europe" / Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
Contributors
Index
Charts a new course for African diaspora studies
Tejumola Olaniyan is the Louise Durham Mead Professor of English and African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is author of Arrest the Music! (IUP, 2004).
James H. Sweet is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is author of Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441–1770.
Overall, this collection is a very timely and useful contribution
to the slowly emerging body of studies of the African
diasporas.
*Centre for African Studies*
The African Diaspora and the Disciplines is a cutting-edge
publication that is long overdue. Apart from general readers, it
can be recommended for upper-level African diaspora courses and
graduate theory and methods courses. Its discussion of genetic
diasporas in particular will serve as a scientific and biological
bridge linking New World black diasporic ideation about notions of
a "homeland" and the environs where these homes sprouted prior to
the Middle Passage.
*Africa Today*
The African Diaspora and the Disciplines . . . ranks as an
excellent contribution to the growing field [of African diaspora
studies]. . . . [I]t is a cogent, suggestive work that will
energize scholars across the disciplines to further mine this rich
vein.
*postcolonialnetworks.com*
The volume as a whole reflects a courageous effort: it goes beyond
empirical specifics of the African diaspora to provide an interim
report on intellectual work crossing the boundaries of national
units and disciplinary boxes. Vol. 52.2, 2011
*Journal of African History*
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