Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (286 pages)
Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: An Examination of Europe and Asia -- 1. The African Presence In Asia, with Special Reference To India -- 2. Race, Ethnicity, and Development in the Atlantic World in the New Century -- PART II: An Examination of the Caribbean -- 3. From Independence to the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges Facing the Commonwealth Caribbean Societies -- 4. Being Caribbean: Writing de Caribbean and its Diaspora in the Twenty-first Century -- PART III: An Examination of North America-Canada/ U.S.A -- 5. On The Record: The Testimony of Canada's Black Pioneers, 1783-1865 -- 6. Race, Racism, and Manifestations of Inequality in Canadian Society -- 7. African-Americans and African-West Indians Relations in New York City, 1900-1952: Conflict, Reconciliation and Cooperation -- PART IV: Some cultural aspects of the Diaspora -- 8. The Notion of Realness in the Success of Tupac Shakur and Bob Marley -- 9. "What Happens in Haiti Has Repercussions Which Far Transcend Haiti Itself": Walter White, Haiti and the Public Relations Campaign, 1947-1955 -- PART V: Institutional Impacts and Adaptations in the Diaspora -- 10 Media and the Diaspora -- 11. The West Indian Diaspora to the U.S.A: Remittances and Development of the Homeland -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
This volume investigates the often-overlooked African presence in Asia, determining how many of these diasporic populations fared in the context of political independence, globalization / economic marginalization, and the presence of ethnic conflict and institutional racism, even with positive class formations and declining significance of race in other geographical areas.
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Black people--History. Racism--History. Slavery--History. Race relations.