ISBN:
9781580464529
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 418 S., [10] Bl
,
Ill., Kt
,
24 cm
DDC:
909.0496
Keywords:
African diaspora
;
Globalization
;
Africans
;
Yoruba (African people)
;
Transnationalism
;
Slave trade
;
Afrika
;
Yoruba
;
Sklaverei
;
Diaspora
Abstract:
Introduction: the old and the new African diaspora -- Africa and slavery in a transnational context -- The slave mutiny of 1839: the colonization of memory and spaces -- The centralization of Africa and the intellectualization of blackness -- Communalism, Africanism, and Pan-Africanism -- Atlantic Yoruba and the expanding frontiers of Yoruba culture and politics -- Politics, slavery, servitude, and the construction of Yoruba identity -- Orisa music, dance, and modernity -- Western education and Transatlantic connections -- Africa in the diaspora and the diaspora in Africa: toward an integrated body of knowledge -- Tanure Ojaide and Akin Ogundiran: knowledge circulation and the diasporic interface -- Nollywood and the creative world of Aderonke Adesola Adesanya: the African impact on global cultures -- Globalization and contemporary cultures -- Postscript: United States foreign policy on Africa in the twenty-first century
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction: the old and the new African diasporaAfrica and slavery in a transnational context -- The slave mutiny of 1839: the colonization of memory and spaces -- The centralization of Africa and the intellectualization of blackness -- Communalism, Africanism, and Pan-Africanism -- Atlantic Yoruba and the expanding frontiers of Yoruba culture and politics -- Politics, slavery, servitude, and the construction of Yoruba identity -- Orisa music, dance, and modernity -- Western education and Transatlantic connections -- Africa in the diaspora and the diaspora in Africa: toward an integrated body of knowledge -- Tanure Ojaide and Akin Ogundiran: knowledge circulation and the diasporic interface -- Nollywood and the creative world of Aderonke Adesola Adesanya: the African impact on global cultures -- Globalization and contemporary cultures -- Postscript: United States foreign policy on Africa in the twenty-first century.
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : the old and the new African diaspora -- Africa and slavery in a transnational context -- The slave mutiny of 1839 : the colonization of memory and spaces -- The centralization of Africa and the intellectualization of blackness -- Communalism, Africanism, and Pan-Africanism -- Atlantic Yoruba and the expanding frontiers of Yoruba culture and politics -- Politics, slavery, servitude, and the construction of Yoruba identity -- Orisa music, dance, and modernity -- Western education and Transatlantic connections -- Africa in the diaspora and the diaspora in Africa : toward an integrated body of knowledge -- Tanure Ojaide and Akin Ogundiran : knowledge circulation and the diasporic interface -- Nollywood and the creative world of Aderonke Adesola Adesanya : the African impact on global cultures -- Globalization and contemporary cultures -- Postscript: United States foreign policy on Africa in the twenty-first century.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-409) and index
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=41398
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