Dimensions of African and other diasporas
By: edited by Franklin W. Knight and Ruth Iyob
Contributors: Johns Hopkins University. Center for Africana Studies; University of the West Indies (Mona, Jamaica). Press
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press; The University of the West Indies Press; University Press of the West Indies
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Kingston, Jamaica
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9789766404598
Subjects: African diaspora; Armenian diaspora; Congresses; Blacks; Chinese diaspora
Notes: " ... this volume ... had its genesis in an exciting international conference, "Exploring Dimensions of African Diasporas," held in Baltimore, Maryland, 26-27 April 2012, under the auspices of the Center for Africana Studies of the Johns Hopkins University."--p.vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reflections on African diasporas in the Mediterranean world / Ruth Iyob; title: Diaspora and empire: the case of the Armenians in pre-revolutionary Russia / Tamara Ganjalyan; title: The Africanization of Amerindians in the greater Caribbean: The Wayuu and Miskito, fifteenth to eighteenth centuries / Christian Cwik; title: African "nations" as diasporic institution-building in the Iberian Atlantic / Jane Landers; title: The Chinese on the US-Mexico borderlands: strategic transnationalism during the exclusion era, 1882-1940 / Evelyn Hu-DeHart; title: Caribbean identities, dance constructions and "crossroading" / Yvonne Daniel; title: "The Spear is black with a pure gold point": articulations of "blackness" in Toronto during the 1970s / Michelle A. Johnson; title: When diasporas meet: black solidarity and inter-ethnic intersections in the United States of America / Tommy L. Lott; title: The perception of madness: escapes and flights of fancies in Claude McKay's Banana Bottom / Jarrett Hugh Brown; title: The Caribbean diaspora and black internationalism / Winston James; title: Black power in the African diaspora / Quito Swan.