Description: Further DetailsTitle: The African DiasporaCondition: NewEAN: 9781580464536ISBN: 9781580464536Publisher: University of Rochester PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/01/2014Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Toyin FalolaLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Slavery, Modernity, and GlobalizationISBN-10: 158046453XDescription: In this definitive study of the African diaspora in North America, Toyin Falola offers a causal history of the western dispersion of Africans and its effects on the modern world.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 thesesame 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 NorthAmerica, 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 Falolais 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 AfricanCultures and Nationalism and African Intellectuals.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: HistoryItem Weight: 1gTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The African Diaspora
Title: The African Diaspora
EAN: 9781580464536
ISBN: 9781580464536
Release Date: 08/01/2014
Release Year: 2014
Subtitle: Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization
ISBN-10: 158046453X
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 454 Pages
Publication Name: African Diaspora : Slavery, Modernity, and Globalization
Language: English
Publisher: University of Rochester Medical Press
Subject: Slavery, Africa / General, International Relations / General, Black Studies (Global), North America, United States / General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Height: 1.1 in
Publication Year: 2014
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 26.7 Oz
Author: Toyin Falola
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Item Length: 8.9 in
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
