The black diaspora of the Americas : experiences and theories out of the Caribbean / Christine Chivallon; translated from the French version by Antoinette Titus-Tidjani Alou.

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The forced migration of Africans to the Americas through the transatlantic slave trade created primary centres of settlement in the Caribbean, Brazil and the United States - the cornerstones of the New World and the black Americas. However, unlike Brazil and the US, the Caribbean did not (and still...

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Uniform Title:Diaspora noire des Amériques. English
Main Author: Chivallon, Christine
Other Authors: Tidjani Alou, Antoinette
Language:English
Language of the Original:
French
Published: Kingston [Jamaica] : Ian Randle Publishers, 2011.
Subjects:
African diaspora.
Black people > America > Social conditions.
Black people > Caribbean Area > Social conditions.
Black people > Migrations.
Slavery > America > History.
America > Ethnic relations.
America > Emigration and immigration.
Physical Description:xlv, 231 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • PART 1: The Slave Trade, Slavery and Contemporary Migrations: Experiencing the Diaspora
  • 1. The Slave Trade as a Founding Event
  • 2. Dispersion to an Impossible Elsewhere: Slavery and Its Legacy
  • 3. The Second Stratum of the Diaspora: Contemporary Migrations and Reactualisation of Old Relationships
  • PART 2: Can One Diaspora Hide Another?
  • 4. Three Theories on the Black Cultural Universe of the Americas
  • 5. A Variable Research Object? The Example of the Family Institution Viewed Through Three Theses on the African-American World
  • 6. Three Concepts of the Diaspora Corresponding to Three Theses on the African-American Cultural Universe
  • PART 3: The Black Diaspora: Articulating Experiences and Theories
  • 7. The Resource of the Ancestral Land: Pan-Africanism and Black Nationalism as Projects of a Durable Unity
  • 8. Community Plurality or the A-Centred Community
  • 9. Rastafari: An Allegorical Figure of the A-Centred Community
  • Conclusion: Out of the Caribbean: For a Reformulated Model of the Diaspora.