The African diaspora (Record no. 963)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781580464529
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 909.0496FAL
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Personal name Falola, Toyin.
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Title The African diaspora
Remainder of title slavery, modernity, and globalization
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. Rochester
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. University of Rochester Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2013
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Extent xiv, 418 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
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Summary, etc. The African diaspora is arguably the most important event in modern African history. From the fifteenth century to the present, millions of Africans have been dispersed--many of them forcibly, others driven by economic need or political persecution--to other continents, creating large communities with African origins living outside their native lands. The majority of these communities are in North America. This historic displacement has meant that Africans are irrevocably connected to economic and political developments in the West and globally. Among the known legacies of the diaspora are slavery, colonialism, racism, poverty, and underdevelopment, yet the ways in which these same factors worked to spur the scattering of Africans are not fully understood--by those who were part of this migration or by scholars, historians, and policymakers. In this definitive study of the diaspora in North America, Toyin Falola offers a causal history of the western dispersion of Africans and its effects on the modern world. Reengaging old and familiar debates and framing new ones that enrich the discourse surrounding Africa, Falola isolates the thread, running nearly six centuries, that connects the history of slavery, the transatlantic slave trade, and current migrations. A boon to scholars and policymakers and accessible to the general reader, the book explores diverse narratives of migration and shows that the cultures that migrated from Africa to the Americas have the capacity to unite and create a new pan-Africanist movement within the globalized world. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the 2011 recipient of the Distinguished Africanist Award from the African Studies Association and serves as the vice president of the International Scientific Committee of the UNESCO Slave Route Project. His previous books published by the University of Rochester Press include The Power of African Cultures and Nationalism and African Intellectuals.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element African diaspora.
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