Anywhere but here : Black intellectuals in the Atlantic world and beyond Anywhere But Here brings together new scholarship on the cross cultural experiences of intellectuals of African descent since the eighteenth century. The book embraces historian Paul Gilroys prominent thesis in The Black Atlantic and posits arguments beyond The Black Atlantics traditional organization and symbolism. These essays expand categories and suggest patterns that have united individuals and communities across the African diaspora. They highlight the stories of people who from their intercultural and often marginalized positions challenged the status quo created international alliances cultivated expertise and cultural fluency abroad as well as crafted physical and intellectual spaces for their self expression and dignity to thrive. What for example connects the eighteenth century Igbo author Olaudah Equiano with 1940s literary figure Richard Wright; nineteenth century expatriate anthropologist Antenor Fermin with 1960s Haitian émigrés to the Congo; Japanese Pan Asianists and Southern Hemisphere Aboriginal activists with Jamaican born Marcus Garvey; or Angela Davis with artists of the British Black Arts Movement Ingrid Pollard and Zarina Bhimji They are all part of a mapping the reaches across and beyond the boundaries typically associated with the Black Atlantic