Aubrey W. Bonnett is professor of American studies and co-coordinator of the African-American studies program at SUNY College, Old Westbury. He has received numerous awards in New York, California, and Maryland for furthering educational achievement among the racially disadvantaged. Calvin B. Holder, Ph.D. (Harvard), is a professor of history, former history department chair, and director of the African American Studies program at the College of Staten Island/CUNY.

Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora

Bonnett Aubrey W. Holder Calvin B.

Heftet / 2009 / Engelsk

Bonnett Aubrey W. Holder Calvin B.

Heftet / 2009 / Engelsk

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A serious work by an extraordinary collection of scholars that should be commended for its inclusion of the diasporas of India, Guyana, and Haiti that has received limited, at best, attention in the literature…[Bonnett and Holder] should be applauded for their commitment to produce this volume at this historical juncture…

- Charles Green, professor of sociology, Hunter College/CUNY; author, Manufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora (2001); editor, Globaliza,

A brilliant collection of essays…With great depth of understanding, the authors give vivid accounts of blacks living out of Africa….I found the book fascinating.

- Wendell Bell, professor emeritus of sociology, Yale University,

This volume not only assembles some of the leading scholars on this subject, but also provides cogent analysis of the multiple dynamics of Diaspora studies… provides critical assessments of context as well as content, and highlights both continuity and change in a way that transcends but also connects several disciplines.

- Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, provost and professor of political science, York College, The City University of New York,

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Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora is a response to a 1990 publication that studied the persistence and resilience of black (African) diasporic populations in the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and the United Kingdom. In that book, the authors used the themes of persistence and resilience to interrogate the social processes and the coping repertoire of these diasporic populations. This volume investigates the often-overlooked African presence in Asia. Researchers sought to determine how many of these diasporic populations have fared in the context of political independence, globalization / economic marginalization, and the presence of ethnic conflict and institutional racism, even with positive class formations and declining significance of race in other geographical areas. Prescriptions for the continued viability of these diasporic populations are provided. India and China are undergoing a global renaissance, emerging as potentially significant economic, political, and cultural actors on the world scene. Meanwhile, ancestral Africa is still socially, politically, and economically fragmented, thereby causing a new migratory "push" to North America and Europe.

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Chapter 1 Acknowledgements Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Introduction Chapter 4 PART I: An Examination of Europe and Asia Chapter 5 The African Presence in Asia, with Special Reference to India Chapter 6 Race, Ethnicity, and Development in the Atlantic World in the New Century Chapter 7 PART II: An Examination of the Caribbean Chapter 8 3. From Independence to the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges Facing the Commonwealth Caribbean Societies Chapter 9 4. Being Caribbean: Writing de Caribbean and its Diaspora in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 10 PART III: An Examination of North America - Canada/U.S.A. Chapter 11 On the Record: The Testimony of Canada's Black Pioneers Chapter 12 Race, Racism, and Manifestations of Inequality in Canadian Society Chapter 13 African-Americans and African-West Indians Relations in New York City, 1900-1952: Conflict, Reconciliation, and Cooperation Chapter 14 PART IV: Some Cultural Aspects of the Diaspora Chapter 15 The Notion of Realness in the Success of Tupac Shakur and Bob Marley Chapter 16 "What Happens in Haiti Has Repercussions Which Far Transcend Haiti Itself": Walter White, Haiti, and the Public Relations Campaign, 1947-1955 Chapter 17 PART V: Institutional Impacts and Adaptations in the Diaspora Chapter 18 Media and the Diaspora Chapter 19 The West Indian Diaspora to the U.S.A: Remittancesand Development of the Homeland Chapter 20 Notes on Contributors Chapter 21 Index

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- Charles Green, professor of sociology, Hunter College/CUNY; author, Manufacturing Powerlessness in the Black Diaspora (2001); editor, Globaliza,

A brilliant collection of essays…With great depth of understanding, the authors give vivid accounts of blacks living out of Africa….I found the book fascinating.

- Wendell Bell, professor emeritus of sociology, Yale University,

- Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, provost and professor of political science, York College, The City University of New York,