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Challenging the Black Atlantic
The historical novels of Manuel Zapata Olivella and Ana Maria Gonçalves map black journeys from Africa to the Americas in a way that challenges the Black Atlantic paradigm that has become synonymous with cosmopolitan African diaspora studies. Unlike Paul Gilroy, who coined the term and based it on W.E.B. DuBois’s double consciousness, Zapata, in Changó el gran putas (1983), creates an empowering mythology that reframes black resistance in Colombia, Haiti, Mexico, Brazil, and the United States. In Um defeito de cor (2006), Gonçalves imagines the survival strategies of a legendary woman said to be the mother of black abolitionist poet Luís Gama and a conspirator in an African Muslim–led revolt in Brazil’s “Black Rome.” These novels show differing visions of revolution, black community, femininity, sexuality, and captivity. They skillfully reveal how events preceding the UNESCO Decade of Afro-Descent (2015–2024) alter our understanding of Afro-Latin America as it gains increased visibility.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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Chinese migrants in Paris : the narratives of illusion and suffering
\"This research employs the narrative of mental suffering as a prism through which to study Chinese migration in France. It provides new analytical angles and new perspectives on the paradoxical existence and conditions of the migrants, and traces the social links between individuals and societies, objectivity and subjectivity, the real and the imaginary\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The age of Garvey : how a Jamaican activist created a mass movement and changed global Black politics
\"Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an expansive global history of the movement that came to be known as Garveyism. Offering a groundbreaking new interpretation of global black politics between the First and Second World Wars, Adam Ewing charts Garveyism's emergence, its remarkable global transmission, and its influence in the responses among African descendants to white supremacy and colonial rule in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Delving into the organizing work and political approach of Garvey and his followers, Ewing shows that Garveyism emerged from a rich tradition of pan-African politics that had established, by the First World War, lines of communication between black intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic. Garvey's legacy was to reengineer this tradition as a vibrant and multifaceted mass politics. Ewing looks at the people who enabled Garveyism's global spread, including labor activists in the Caribbean and Central America, community organizers in the urban and rural United States, millennial religious revivalists in central and southern Africa, welfare associations and independent church activists in Malawi and Zambia, and an emerging generation of Kikuyu leadership in central Kenya. Moving away from the images of quixotic business schemes and repatriation efforts, The Age of Garvey demonstrates the consequences of Garveyism's international presence and provides a dynamic and unified framework for understanding the movement, during the interwar years and beyond\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Qualitative methods in Africana studies
This survey of methodology provides a framework for understanding Africana Studies. Africana Studies is the global Pan-Africanist study of African phenomena interpreted from an Afrocentric perspective. This book offers general definitions and descriptions of the qualitative and quantitative research.
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Religious Diaspora: A New Approach to Its Existence and Meaning
The present study aims to contribute to the discussion regarding the possibility of conceptualizing a religious diaspora. It proposes a new way of defining it, namely in relation to religious and not to ethno-territorial realities, but without editing the territorial dimension out. After sketching the definition on this theoretical basis, the study refers to six case studies, pointing to the way in which the definitory traits of a religious diaspora are actualized in each situation under study. The evaluation unravels the strengths of the concept as well as certain aspects that still need to be addressed in further research. The inference is that the capacity of religion to generate diasporic feelings and attitudes should also be acknowledged and that the concept of religious diaspora ought to be treated as an analytic instrument useful both in the research and in the decision-making process.
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Global Asias: Method, Architecture, Praxis
This essay draws on the philosophy, principles, and practices animating Global Asias scholarship to consider how this conceptual rubric shifts the ways in which we approach the subjects, objects, methods, and praxes of the academic study of Asia. Structurally dissonant as an epistemological project, Global Asias encourages scholars to acknowledge the institutional designs and disciplinary practices that currently organize and make legible work on Asia and its diasporas while simultaneously highlighting the limits of, and points of noncontact between, the broader infrastructures (including area studies, ethnic studies, diaspora studies, and the disciplines and interdisciplines) under which such work has traditionally been organized. In addition to offering a conceptual topography of Global Asias, this essay proposes three praxis-oriented concepts—relational nonalignment, structural dissonance, and imaginable ageography—that enable Global Asias as a tactical and evolving approach to the study of Asia and its multiple diasporas, one which actively resists the drive toward “critical consolidation” that often results from academic paradigm work.
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Diaspora Space-Time
Diaspora Space-Tim e explores
the transformations of Pine Mansion-a Shenzhen former emigrant
community-and its members' changing relationship with their
diaspora around the world . For more than a century,
inhabitants of Shenzhen's villages have migrated to Southeast Asia,
the Pacific, North and South America, and Europe. With China's
economic global ascendancy, these villages no longer consist of
peasants dependent on their rich overseas relatives. As the
villages have become part of the special economic zone of Shenzhen,
the megacity that embodies China's rise, emigration has waned.
Lineage ties have long been central in choosing migration
destinations and channeling donations to village projects. After
China's reopening, Shenzhen's villagers used diaspora as a resource
to participate in the city's booming economy and to reestablish and
protect their ritual sites against government plans. As overseas
financial contributions diminish and diasporic relations change,
Anne-Christine Trémon highlights the way emigration is being
reconceptualized in regards to China's changing position in the
world, offering a new perspective on Chinese globalization and the
politics of scale-making.
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Cultural Linguistics and Identity Negotiation within the Singaporean Chinese Diaspora in Hwee Hwee Tan's Mammon Inc
This study explores the representation of Singaporean Chinese diasporic identity in Hwee Hwee Tans novel Mammon Inc. with the help of cultural linguistics. This article seeks to analyze how the novel contributes to understanding diasporic identity and cultural negotiation, with a focus on how the portrayal of the main character reshapes the delicate equilibrium between traditional values and global capitalist pressures. Drawing on Farzad Sharifians cultural conceptualization framework and Gary B. Palmers ethnosemantic analysis, this study focuses on cultural schemas3 and metaphors in the novel. We identify passages in Mammon Inc. that illustrate themes of identity negotiation, cultural displacement, and the impact of globalization on traditional values. Through the categorization of themes and metaphors, we aim to identify culturally relevant schemas pertaining to the Singaporean Chinese diaspora.4 We also employ Palmers ethnosemantic analysis to expose how the novels language reflects the cognitive and cultural frameworks of the protagonist. The metaphorical language used in the novel reveals the protagonists struggle to balance familial expectations with personal ambitions, thus challenging simplistic narratives of identity. This analysis of Tans novel enhances cultural linguistics and diaspora studies by deepening our understanding of how cultural and linguistic factors influence the representation and understanding of diasporic experiences. It underscores the importance of language and culture in the negotiation of identity, offering a nuanced perspective on the complexities faced by the Singaporean Chinese diaspora in a globalized world.
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