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Title:

Global dimensions of the African diaspora / edited by Joseph E. Harris.

Publisher:

Howard University Press,

Copyright Date:

1982

Description:

ix, 419 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Africans--Foreign countries--Congresses.--Congresses.--cm
Afro-Americans--Africa--Congresses.--Congresses.
Blacks--Congresses.--Congresses.
Blacks--Congresses.--Congresses.
Slavery--Africa--Congresses.--Congresses.
Africa--Congresses.--Congresses.

Other Authors:

Harris, Joseph E., 1929- cn
African Diaspora Studies Institute (1st : 1979 : Howard University)

Notes:

"Essays ... of the First African Diaspora Studies Institute (FADSI) which, in 1979, assembled at Howard University"--Pref. Includes index. Includes bibliographical references (p. 398-402).

Contents:

Blacks in Britain: a historical and analytical overview / Folarin Shyllon -- The impact of Afro-Americans on French-speaking black Africans, 1919-1945 / Ibrahima B. Kake -- Richard Wright, negritude and African literature / Michel J. Fabre -- A lesser-known chapter of the African diaspora: West Indians in Costa Rica, Central America / Roy Simon Bryce-Laporte, Trevor Purcell -- Garvey and scattered Africa / Tony Martin -- Afro-American influence in colonial Malawi, 1891-1945: a case study of the interaction between Africa and Africans of the diaspora / Kings M. Phiri -- The presence of black Americans in lower Congo from 1878 to 1921 / Kimpianga Mahaniah -- Afro-Americans and Futa Djalon / Boubacar Barry -- Brazilian returnees of West Africa / S.Y. Boadi-Siaw -- The Sierra Leone Krios: a reappraisal from the perspective of the African diaspora / Akintola J.G. Wyse -- Diaspora studies and pan-Africanism / St. Clair Drake.
The dialectic between diasporas and homelands / Elliott P. Skinner -- African diaspora: concept and context / George Shepperson -- African diaspora: conceptual framework, problems and methodological approaches / Oruno D. Lara -- Conceptualizing Afro-American/African relations: implications for African diaspora studies / Okon Edet Uya -- The relationship between African and African-American literature as utilitarian art: a theoretical formulation / Micere M. Githae-Mugo -- Concepts of diaspora and alienation as priveleged themes in Negritude literature / Daniel L. Racine -- African oral traditions and Afro-American cultural traditions as a means of understanding black culture / Djibril Tamsir Niane -- A comparative approach to the study of the African diaspora / Joseph E. Harris -- African culture and U.S. slavery / Lawrence W. Levine -- Thoughts about literature, the diaspora and Africa / Darwin T. Turner -- Howard University and Meharry medical schools in the training of African physicians, 1868-1978 / Adell Patton -- Guinea versus Congo Lands: aspects of the collective memory in Haiti / Guerin C. Montilus.

ISBN:

9780882580227
0882580221

LCCN:

82023261

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)