Pan-African Chronology: A Comprehensive Reference to the Black Quest for Freedom in Africa, the Americas, Europe and Asia, 1400–1865. By EVERETT JENKINS, JR. North Carolina: McFarland, 1996. Pp. viii + 440. £44.95 (ISBN 0- 7864-0139-7).

1997 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-177
Author(s):  
HAKIM ADI
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Comprehensive Index ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Comprehensive Reference

Everett Jenkins' book is an admirable attempt to present a comparative chronology of events in Africa and throughout the African Diaspora. The volume is divided into five principal chapters, corresponding to the five centuries covered, each preceded by a brief introduction, and includes a short bibliography and guide to sources, as well as an extensive and comprehensive index. In addition to sections on Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, the author also includes useful sections on ‘related historical events’.

African Diasporic Ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank “Trey” Proctor
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Old World ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Catchment Areas ◽  
Race Ethnicity

This chapter examines the intersections of race, ethnicity, and slavery in Spanish America and the African Diaspora by focusing on the development of African Diasporic ethnicity in Mexico City to 1650. Drawing on marriage records from early seventeenth-century Mexico City, it considers how Africans constructed multiple new ethnic and community identities in Spanish America. Through an analysis of selection patterns of testigos (wedding witnesses) alongside marriage choice, the chapter highlights the networks of social relations formed by slaves. It shows that ethnic Africans tended to marry and form communities of association with Africans from the same general catchment areas. It argues that the foundations of the ethnic communities under formation were not intact African ethnicities, pan-African identities, or race-based identities. Rather, slave marriages in Mexico City point to the creation of African diasporic ethnicities that were spontaneously articulated in the Diaspora. Africans formed new ethnic identities based upon Old World backgrounds and commonalities while in Diaspora.

Beyond the African Unification Debate: Why is Pan-African Unity Still a Distant Dream?

2019 ◽  
pp. 15-21
Author(s):  
Sengulo Albert Msellemu ◽  
Hamisi Mathias Machangu
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
African Union ◽  
African Unity ◽  
Kwame Nkrumah ◽  
Pan African ◽  
The Future ◽  
Organization Of African Unity

The idea of the Unification of Africa is not one that should be easily discarded. It is an idea, however, that has experienced major difficulties for those seeking to implement it. Originating in the African Diaspora, it was taken up by figures such as Kwame Nkrumah and Julius Nyerere. In its first decades, the project of African unity was institutionalised in the Organization of African Unity. The OAU passed through many vicissitudes and was always a conceptual and political battleground divided between those who wanted swift and speedy unification of African states, and those who favoured more cautious approaches. In a period where the OAU has given way to the African Union, the authors make an impassioned plea for the continuation of the unification projection into the future, even if in a more sober manner more attuned to the complexities of a diverse continent.

Naming Black Studies: Results From a Faculty Opinion Survey

2019 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 343-366
Author(s):  
Nolan Kopkin ◽  
Erin N. Winkler
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
Black Studies ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
Opinion Survey ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Scholarly Discussion ◽  
Market Pressure ◽  
The Ideal

The ongoing debate about nomenclature has been part of the discourse in Black Studies since the late 1960s, yet there remains no consensus on an ideal name. The existing literature ties specific name choices to political, ideological, and paradigmatic approach; regional focus; and/or institutional and market pressure. In this study, we augment the literature with survey data on the opinions of Black Studies scholars. Our findings show “Africana Studies” is most often chosen as the ideal name, followed by “Black Studies,” “African Diaspora Studies,” “African American Studies” and “Pan-African Studies,” “Africology,” and “African Studies,” and that trends for positive and negative connotations follow a somewhat similar pattern. Just as the literature ties specific name choices to political, ideological, and paradigmatic approach; regional focus; and/or institutional and market pressure, so too do our respondents. It is our hope these results add to the ongoing scholarly discussion around nomenclature in Black Studies.

African Women in Film, the Moving Image, and Screen Culture

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beti Ellerson
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
Early History ◽  
African Women ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
African Cinema ◽  
Pan African ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Women In Cinema ◽  
Goals And Objectives

While African women in film have distinct histories and trajectories, at the same time they have common goals and objectives. Hence, “African women in film” is a concept, an idea, with a shared story and path. While there has always been the hope of creating national cinemas, even the very notion of African cinema(s) in the plural has been pan-African since its early history. And women have taken part in the formation of an African cinema infrastructure from the beginning. The emergence of an “African women in cinema movement” developed from this larger picture. The boundaries of women’s work extend to the global African diaspora. Language, geography, and colonial legacies add to the complexity of African cinema history. Women have drawn from the richness that this multiplicity offers, contributing on local, national, continental, and global levels as practitioners, activists, cultural producers, and stakeholders.

Ago! Ame! Baba Chuck Speaks!

2019 ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
Charles “Chuck” Davis ◽  
C. Kemal Nance
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
North Carolina ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
African Dance ◽  
African Heritage ◽  
Dance Company ◽  
African Descendants ◽  
To Come

C. Kemal Nance has captured the legendary perspective of Baba Chuck in a 2016 interview regarding the seminal words Davis spoke, the history he preached of African descendants in the African diaspora, and Davis’ vision of the state of African heritage traditions in the Americas today. Discussions include the history, business practices, and dancer management style Baba Chuck employed within the Chuck Davis Dance Company; they also reveal Baba Chuck’s pathway from New York to North Carolina, his connections to African dance contemporaries, such as Kariamu Welsh, and his understandings of what the future holds for his dancers and his company. This interview has become even more poignant since Baba Chuck’s recent death. When asked how he would want his legacy to be remembered, Baba Chuck answered simply, “He danced,” but the legacy he left will have him remembered for so much more and for many decades to come.

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