Routes of Passage

by Hamilton, Ruth Simms

• ISBN13: 9780870136320
• ISBN10: 0870136321
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-31
• Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr

Summary

Routes of Passage provides a conceptual, substantive, and empirical orientation to the study of African people worldwide. Routes of Passage addresses issues of geographical mobility and geosocial displacement; changing culture, political, and economic relationships between Africa and its diaspora; interdiaspora relations; political and economic agency and social mobilization, including cultural production and psychocultural transformation; existence in hostile and oppressive political and territorial space; and confronting interconnected relations of social inequality, especially class, gender, nationality, and race.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
Rethinking the African Diaspora: Global Dynamics	1	(40)
Ruth Simms Hamilton
The African Diaspora in the Northwestern Indian Ocean: Reconsideration of an Old Problem and New Directions for Research	41	(36)
Edward A. Alpers
The Diaspora in Yemen	77	(8)
Tim Carmichael
Historicizing the African Diaspora	85	(8)
Joseph E. Harris
African American Studies in Libraries: Collection Development and Management Priorities	93	(12)
Howard Dodson
Two Academic Programs in the African Diaspora: Afro-Brazilian Studies and U.S. Africana Studies	105	(14)
Milfred C. Fierce
The Diaspora in Indo-Afro-Ibero-America	119	(6)
Jorge Silva Castillo
African Diaspora Passages from the Middle East to East Asia	125	(40)
Michael C. Thornton
Portrait of the Past: Black Servicemen in Asia, 1899--1952	165	(4)
Michael C. Thornton
Two Courtiers of African Descent in the Kingdom of Judah: Yehudi and Ebedmelech	169	(10)
John T. Greene
Portrait of the Past: African Moslems in Yugoslavia	179	(2)
Michael C. Thornton
The World Is All of One Piece: The African Diaspora and Transportation to Australia	181	(10)
Cassandra Pybus
A Little-Known Chapter in African American and Russian Cooperation	191	(20)
Joy Gleason Carew
A Perspective on African Diaspora: Cultural Workers and Communities in Russia	211	(12)
Michael C. Thornton
Passages and Portraits of African Descent People in Germany: From Ancient Times to the 1960s	223	(36)
Ruth Simms Hamilton
African Resistance to German Colonialism and Its Legacies, 1884-1913	259	(22)
Ruth Simms Hamilton
Getahun Benti
Reassessing Diaspora Connections and Consciousness: Global Africa and World War I	281	(54)
Ruth Simms Hamilton
Brothers in Arms? African Soldiers in Interwar France	335	(10)
Dana S. Hale
Increasing Resistance to Colonialism in Africa after the ``Great War''	345	(6)
Ruth Simms Hamilton
Orchestrating Race, Nation, and Gender: African Peacekeepers in Germany, 1919--1920	351	(18)
Ruth Simms Hamilton
Anti-Black Reigns of Terror in Great Britain and the Americans in 1919: Similarity and Simultaneity	369	(12)
Ruth Simms Hamilton
Contributors	381