Diasporic Africa: A Reader

Diasporic Africa presents the most recent research on the history and experiences of people of African descent outside of the African continent. By incorporating Europe and North Africa as well as North America, Latin America, and the Caribbean, this reader shifts the discourse on the African diaspora away from its focus solely on the Americas, underscoring the fact that much of the movement of people of African descent took place in Old World contexts. This broader view allows for a more comprehensive approach to the study of the African diaspora.
The volume provides an overview of African diaspora studies and features as a major concern a rigorous interrogation of identity. Other primary themes include contributions to western civilization, from religion, music, and sports to agricultural production and medicine, as well as the way in which our understanding of the African diaspora fits into larger studies of transnational phenomena.

Author: Michael A. Gomez
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 01/01/2006
Pages: 317
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.28w x 0.82d
ISBN: 9780814731666

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2006 pg. 2049

About the Author
Gomez, Michael A.: - Michael Gomez is professor of history and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at New York University. He is the author of Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South.