Download or read book Diasporas written by Stéphane Dufoix and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stephane Dufoix has written the most exhaustive, critical, and analytically sophisticated introduction to diasporas. It resists overemphasizing the transformative power of the present era of globalization and puts the formation of diasporas in a perspective of longue duree that includes previous periods of global integration and diasporic dispersion. Similarly, he avoids the 'beyond the nation-state' trend in the transnationalism literature and shows convincingly that diasporas are intimately linked, in various and contradictory ways, to the politics of the contemporary nation-state."--Andreas Wimmer, University of California, Los Angeles "A work of exemplary range, clarity, and erudition, providing both an introduction and a deft critical reformulation. Diaspora, for Dufoix, is both a complex history and a cluster of proliferating discourses and practices whose future is undetermined. A lucid introduction and an original contribution to scholarship." --James Clifford, University of California, Santa Cruz "By carefully tracing its origins and development, Stephane Dufoix has produced an elegant and richly rewarding guide to the concept of 'diaspora.' The word can be used both too narrowly (confining the idea to the Jewish case) and too broadly (allowing virtually all minorities to qualify). We need a sure-footed guide to the complexities and ambiguities of 'diaspora' and we have found one in Stephane Dufoix. I warmly recommend this instructive book."--Robin Cohen, University of Oxford, and author of Global Diasporas "Stephane Dufoix has given us a brilliant exploration of the many meanings and boundaries of the term 'diaspora'. Its far longer and diverse history than is commonly thought will come as a surprise to some. Dufoix's theoretical and analytical engagement with the term, and the erudition he brings to it, are an invitation to a whole new debate."--Saskia Sassen, author of Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages "In Diasporas Stephane Dufoix gives us an excellent introduction to and overview of a fascinating and very complex topic. Considering this phenomenon from a variety of perspectives, including etymological, historical, and cultural, he shows how different populations and groups of scholars have used the idea of diaspora to conceptualize their own identities, and the strengths and weaknesses of using the concept of diaspora to do so. Dufoix's discussion of space and contemporary virtual communities is particularly fascinating. This is a very welcome addition to an ever-growing literature."--Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley

Download or read book Black Morocco written by Chouki El Hamel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Morocco: A History of Slavery, Race, and Islam chronicles the experiences, identity and achievements of enslaved black people in Morocco from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century. Chouki El Hamel argues that we cannot rely solely on Islamic ideology as the key to explain social relations and particularly the history of black slavery in the Muslim world, for this viewpoint yields an inaccurate historical record of the people, institutions and social practices of slavery in Northwest Africa. El Hamel focuses on black Moroccans' collective experience beginning with their enslavement to serve as the loyal army of the Sultan Isma'il. By the time the Sultan died in 1727, they had become a political force, making and unmaking rulers well into the nineteenth century. The emphasis on the political history of the black army is augmented by a close examination of the continuity of black Moroccan identity through the musical and cultural practices of the Gnawa.

Download or read book Frenchness and the African Diaspora written by Charles Tshimanga and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auto da fé : understanding the 2005 Riots. Primitive rebellion in the French Banlieues : on the fall 2005 riots / Didier Lapeyronnie -- The republic and its beast : on the riots in the French Banlieues / Achille Mbembe -- Figures of multiplicity : can France reinvent Its identity? / Achille Mbembe -- Outsiders in the French melting pot : the public construction of invisibility for visible minorities / Ahmed Boubeker -- Colonization, citizenship, and containment. From imperial inclusion to republican exclusion? : France's ambiguous postwar trajectory / Frederick Cooper -- Colonial syndrome : French modern and the deceptions of history / Florence Bernault -- Transient citizens : the othering and indigenization of blacks and Beurs within the French Republic / Didier Gondola -- The Law of February 23, 2005 : the uses made of the revival of France's "colonial grandeur" / Nicolas Bancel -- Visions and tensions of Frenchness. A conservative revolution within secularism : the ideological premises and social effects of the March 15, 2004, "anti-headscarf" law / Pierre Tévanian -- Zidane : portrait of the artist as political avatar / Nacira Guénif-Souilamas -- The state of French cultural exceptionalism : the 2005 uprisings and the politics of visibility Peter J. Bloom -- Let the music play : the African diaspora, popular culture, and national identity in contemporary France / Charles Tshimanga.

Download or read book The Black Diaspora of the Americas written by Christine Chivallon and published by Ian Randle Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forced migration of Africans to the Americas through the trnasatlantic slave trade created primary centres of settlement in the Caribbean, Brazil and the United States - the cornerstones of the New World and the black Americas. However, unlike Brazil and the US, the Caribbean did not (and still does not) have the uniformity of a national framework. Instead, the region presents differing situations and social experiences born of the varying colonial systems from which they were developed. Using the Caribbean experience as the focus, Christine Chivallon examins the transatlantic slave trade and slavery as founding events in the identification of a black diaspora experience. The exploration is extended to include the United States to exemplify contrasting situations in slavery-based systems and identifies the links between the expressions of culture emanting from the black populations of the New World and the diversity of interpretations of the cultural identities of the black Americas.Divided into three main parts, The Black Diaspora of the Americas firstly examines the foundation of the black experiences of the New World by considering the slave trade. The second part takes a more theoretical examination of 'black diaspora' using Rastafarianism, Garveyism and Pan-Africanism while referencing the work of a range of thinkers including Stuart Hall, Paul Gilroy, Richard Price, douard Glissant, Melville Herskovits and Sidney Mintz. The work is concluded in the third part with the proposition of an a-centred community of persons of African descent - a culture devoid of centrality.The Black Diaspora of the Americas brings together the key arguments about creolisation and the concept of a black diaspora and presents an outstanding contribution to understanding the dynamics of diaspora.

Download or read book North south Linkages and Connections in Continental and Diaspora African Literatures written by African Literature Association. Meeting and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects some of the best lectures at the African Literature Association's 25th annual conference held in 1999. The conference brought together for the first time a large number of scholars, creative writers and artists from Northern Africa and their counterparts from Sub- Saharan Africa. The conference and this collection highlight the inspiring and stimulating dialogue between two literary and cultural areas that have often been artificially compartmentalised. The essays draw suprising connections and illustrate the breadth and dynamism of African literature.

Download or read book La po sie congolaise l aube d un jour nouveau Essai Compl ment au cours de litt rature n gro africaine pour les classes du secondaire l usage de l enseignant de l l ve et de tout lecteur curieux written by NORBERT MBU-MPUTU and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book African historians and globalization written by Issiaka Mandé and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2005 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le thème central du 3e congrès de l'Association des historiens africains tenu à Bamako du 10 au 14 septembre 2001 offrait le double avantage d'englober la plupart des domaines de recherches historiques et d'ouvrir sur les débats d'actualité qui engagent l'avenir. Dans un monde plus que jamais unifié, notamment par le marché, et marqué également par le paradoxe apparent de la marginalisation et des exclusions, les historiens se devaient d'apporter leur contribution à la compréhension de la mondialisation, concept relativement récent qui recouvre des réalités résultant d'un processus historique de longue portée. Les contributions présentées au congrès de Bamako, ouvert aux historiens de toutes origines, s'articulent, au-delà de leur grande diversité, autour de quelques grandes préoccupations. Elles tentent d'abord d'établir un bilan critique de l'historiographie africaine de ces dernières années, suscitant ainsi le débat sur l'exercice du métier d'historien, et son " utilité " éventuelle. Quelle histoire ? Pour quel public ? Et pour quoi faire ? De la réponse à ces questions dépend en partie la pertinence de nos approches de la mondialisation. La plupart des approches présentées dans l'ouvrage s'attachent à mettre en lumière le caractère récurrent et dynamique de la mondialisation qui change de forme selon les différents " temps " que sont les séquences historiques marquées au cours de la période dite " moderne " par la traite atlantique, la colonisation ou plus récemment, la vague de néolibéralisme. Toutes ces séquences ont lourdement pesé sur le destin de l'Afrique. En faisant le constat, les analyses n'occultent nullement la question de la " responsabilité " des Africains dans ces évolutions. Les contributions ouvrent enfin sur les perspectives africaines de la mondialisation actuelle. Les enjeux, le défi de la réalisation effective de l'unité africaine, les perspectives ouvertes à cet effet par la création récente de l'Union africaine et la contribution possible des sciences sociales au renforcement d'une conscience historique africaine en faveur de cette intégration sont autant de thèmes abordés que de chantiers ouverts.

Download or read book Histoire des relations entre l Afrique et sa diaspora written by Joachim Goma-Thethet and published by Editions L'Harmattan. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La diaspora, le panafricanisme, l'unité africaine, les Etats-Unis d'Afrique sont des concepts intimement liés qui n'ont cessé d'évoluer avec le temps. Cet ouvrage consacré aux relations entre l'Afrique noire et sa diaspora, du XIXè au XXè siècle, indique les rapports qui ont été établis entre les Africains du continent et ceux vivant en Amérique et en Europe. Il examine le rôle que pourraient jouer les Africains de la diaspora pour relever les défis africains en ce début du XXIè siècle.

Download or read book African Studies Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book L histoire de l Afrique et de sa diaspora written by Jahlyssa Sekhmet and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Les diasporas dans le monde contemporain written by and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2006 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les diasporas composent l'une des formes de relations sociales qui laisse imaginer les modalités en émergence de notre rapport au monde, tant du point de vue de la relation à l'Autre que du lien à l'Etat. Allégeance, retour, réseau, nationalisme, exil, médias communautaires, globalisation, appartenance, temps long, héritage, identification sont autant de thèmes et de notions qui ont cristallisé la réflexion de spécialistes, français et étrangers, des diasporas. Cet ouvrage se donne pour but d'offrir au lecteur la photographie d'un champ de recherche établie au fil d'un dialogue scientifique de trois ans sur le thème " Interroger les diasporas, comprendre les constances et les mobilités ". Outre l'élaboration d'une problématique, les textes restituent les contours dynamiques d'un domaine d'étude avec la diversité d'approches à laquelle " la ferveur diasporique " a donné lieu. On ne peut que constater la fortune du terme " diaspora " et son utilisation de plus en plus élargie. Dire la diaspora c'est dire la dispersion, mais l'usage décuplé du terme renouvelle aussi les interrogations sur cette organisation sociale et la dimension spatiale qu'elle implique. C'est sous cet angle que sont abordées, entre autres, les diasporas protestante, turque, africaine, grecque, roumaine, caribéenne, arménienne et juive.

Download or read book The Collected Edition of Roger Dorsinville s Postcolonial Literary Criticism in Africa 1982 1986 written by Roger Dorsinville and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contribution of this collection to scholarship is fourfold: it contributes to the expansion of knowledge about the African continent through a critic's response to its many forms of representation by writers outside as well as inside Africa; the range of writings provides intertextual evidence supportive of Dorsinville's own complex representation of Africa in his fiction and memoirs; it is a documented record of a broad paradigm concerned with a postcolonial representation of the dialectic of home and exile, memory and identity, and selfhood and otherness; and it provides a fascinating display of a postcolonial writer-critic's intellectual journey enlivened by his use of voice in the African tradition of oral exchange whereby he positions himself as the one speaking to and for the many. The volumes follow the original chronology of the publication of the individual texts. The contents range widely from books on (or by) many African and Caribbean writers, as well as Doris Lessing, David Halberstam, Idi Amin and Muhammad Ali.

Download or read book African Studies Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book African women Pan Africanism and African renaissance written by Serbin, Sylvia and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Communication in the Jewish Diaspora written by Sophia Menache and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-01-22 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Jews lacked a political locus standi for a communication system in the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods, their involvement in trade and the close relations among Jewish communities fostered the development of effective channels of communication. This process responded primarily to security and socio-economic considerations but it has important implications for the development of communication systems as well. Written by some of the most outstanding researchers in the field of Jewish history, this collection offers a rich and consistent picture of the main developments in communications in the Jewish world before the era of mass-media. This pioneering research reconsiders the principal means of communication among the Jewish communities in the Islamic world, Christian Europe, the Ottoman Empire, and the New World, from the seventh until the nineteenth centuries.

Download or read book From Iberia to Diaspora written by Yedida K Stillman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-14 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This rich, interdisciplinary collection of articles offers fascinating new insights into the history and culture of Sephardic Jewry both in pre-Expulsion Iberia and throughout the far-flung diaspora.

Download or read book Cosmopolis de la ville de l Afrique et du monde written by Dominique Malaquais and published by KARTHALA Editions. This book was released on 2006 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: