African and Black Diaspora as Curriculum

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Horace R. Hall
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Involuntary Movement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Black Diaspora ◽  
African Black ◽  
Racist Ideology ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Colonial Oppression

The African diaspora, also referred to as the African Black diaspora, is the voluntary and involuntary movement of Africans and their descendants to various parts of the world. Even though voluntary widespread African diasporas occurred during precolonizing periods, the Arabic slave trade (7th to 18th centuries) and the transatlantic slave trade (16th to 19th centuries) are largely recognized as phases of involuntary movement with an estimated combined 30 million Africans dispersed across the African continent and globally. Today, the largest populations of people descended from Africans forcibly removed from Africa reside in Brazil, the Caribbean, and the United States, with millions more in other countries. Such vast movement of a people across time and space has meant that those who are part of the African diaspora have suffered similar problems and disadvantages. The legacy of slavery, especially in relation to racism and colonialism, has garnered attention across the scholarly disciplines of history, ethnic, cultural, and religious studies. Likewise, African and Black diasporan responses to colonial oppression have manifested in multiple curricula in literature, music, philosophy, politics, civilization, customs, and so forth, designed for and by African diasporans in their efforts to unite all people of African descent, building on their cultural identity and resisting racist ideology and colonial rule.

Black Power and/as Patriarchy

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-217
Author(s):  
Laurie R. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Black Power ◽  
The United States ◽  
Black Nationalism ◽  
Black Writers ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Women's Voices ◽  
Global Consciousness ◽  
The Caribbean

In Moving Against the System: The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of Global Consciousness, David Austin continues his important work as the leading historian of 1960s black Montreal. Moving Against the System illuminates histories that are critical to an understanding of black radicalism in Canada, the Caribbean, and the African diaspora, more broadly. This work decenters the United States as the nexus of Black Power, allowing readers to think about Canada as an understudied site of black radical organizing. While the congress viewed Black Nationalism as a serious political framework for defeating both racism and colonialism, all the speakers were male. This essay critiques the masculinist politics of Black Power at the congress and analyzes how Austin navigates the absence of women’s voices among the congress’s speakers.

scholarly journals Do Black Wikipedians matter? Confronting the whiteness in Wikipedia with archives and libraries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Alexis Smith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Important Work ◽  
Missed Opportunities ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Presence ◽  
The Caribbean

Wikipedia is in the top ten of the most visited websites in most places in the world and makes up the backbone of the Internet’s information ecosystem. Despite the global presence of the website and its sister projects, the knowledges of the African diaspora, in particular the Caribbean, are poorly represented. This chapter introduces and outlines Black-led projects, campaigns, and initiatives both within and outside of the formal networks of the Wikipedia communities and the Wikimedia Foundation. The history and value of Black encyclopedic sources are explored and frame the important work by projects like Black Lunch Table, WikiNdaba, Ennegreciendo Wikipedia, and AfroCROWD, which were started to help these editors and bridge content gaps. In June 2020, the Wikimedia Foundation released a statement in support of Black Lives highlighting the support they provide to U.S.-based projects. This was followed with criticism from the community on missed opportunities to acknowledge the work and networks outside the United States of on-wiki communities, information activists, academics, independent scholars, and communities who often go unrecognized. This chapter explores how the system of white supremacy is a part of libraries and archives and Wikipedia; how Black-led shared knowledge information activists are circumventing the system; and suggestions for a more inclusive path forward.

Phantom Pains: The Effect of Police Killings of Black Americans on Black British Attitudes

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Ayobami Laniyonu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Attitudes ◽  
Black Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Black Diaspora ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Black British ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Diaspora And Transnationalism

Abstract What effect does black politics in the United States have on the attitudes of black citizens in other national contexts? Literature on the black diaspora and transnationalism has characterized cultural and political linkages between black communities in North America, the Caribbean, and Europe, especially during the mid-20th century. In this article, I exploit random timing in the administration of a public attitudes survey to demonstrate that such linkages persist and that the police killing of Eric Garner in 2014 negatively affected black Londoners’ attitudes toward the Metropolitan Police. Notably, I find the effect was largely concentrated among black Londoners: estimates of an effect on white and South Asian Londoners were small and largely insignificant. The evidence presented here demonstrates that racial violence in the United States can affect racial politics in other national contexts and helps frame the emergence of Black Lives Matter chapters and protests beyond the United States.

The Congress of Vienna and the Politics of Slavery

2020 ◽  
pp. 233-249
Author(s):  
Alan Forrest
Keyword(s):  
Slave Trade ◽  
The United States ◽  
Trade Routes ◽  
The North ◽  
International Pressure ◽  
Slave Ships ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The North Atlantic ◽  
General Desire ◽  
The Right

The chapter begins with an account of public opinion in the Atlantic cities following Napoleon’s defeat in 1814, the growth of royalist support in Bordeaux and the general desire of the Atlantic ports for the return of peace and the renewal of former commercial ties. But with Britain and the United States having already abolished the slave trade, there was huge international pressure on France to follow suit. Britain claimed the right to board slave ships and police the trade routes to Africa and the Caribbean, and the future legality of slaving was thrown into doubt. After Napoleon’s defeat during the Hundred Days France’s negotiating position was weakened. Vienna would prove a turning-point for the slave trade in the North Atlantic.

scholarly journals Americocentrism and Art of the Caribbean: Contours of a Time–Space Logic

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 417-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
LEON WAINWRIGHT
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Art History ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
The United States ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Space Logic

Art of the transnational Caribbean has come to be positioned by an understanding of the African diaspora that is oriented to an American “centre,” a situation to be explored for what it reveals about the hegemonic status of the United States in the discipline of contemporary art history. The predominant uses of the diaspora concept both in art-historical narratives and in curatorial spaces are those that connect to United States-based realities, with little pertinence to a strictly transnational theorization. This has implications for how modern art and contemporary art are thought about in relation to the Caribbean and its diaspora, in a way that this article demonstrates with attention to a number of artists at multiple sites, in Trinidad, Guyana, Britain and America.

AHR Conversation: Black Internationalism

2020 ◽  
Vol 125 (5) ◽  
pp. 1699-1739
Author(s):  
Monique Bedasse ◽  
Kim D. Butler ◽  
Carlos Fernandes ◽  
Dennis Laumann ◽  
Tejasvi Nagaraja ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
Multiple Points ◽  
Black Internationalism ◽  
Black Resistance ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Intellectual Production

Abstract This annual AHR Conversation focuses on the issues and historiographic debates raised by the term “Black Internationalism.” Participants Monique Bedasse, Kim D. Butler, Carlos Fernandes, Dennis Laumann, Tejasvi Nagaraja, Benjamin Talton, and Kira Thurman bring a wide array of interests and areas of expertise to bear on the origins, evolution, and meaning of the concept of Black Internationalism; its application within Africa, the U.S., and the African diaspora more generally; and its relationship to gender, nationalism, and anticolonialism. In addition to tracing the deep roots of this framework for writing the history of Black resistance to slavery, colonialism, and white supremacy as global phenomena, they insist on seeing Black Internationalism from multiple points on the compass. Perspectives derived from the history—and intellectual production—of Africa, Europe, South America, and the Caribbean prove just as important, if not more so, than those emanating from the United States.

Humanism and Race

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Cameron
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Race And Religion

Academic studies of humanism often ignore questions of race and both the existence and significance of non-white humanists. At the same time, scholarship on race and religion fails to consider humanist traditions. Through an analysis of work by literary critics, intellectual historians/philosophers, scholars of religious studies, and theologians this chapter calls for a greater attention to the intersection of race and humanism and posits three key points: scholars working in these fields must make greater use of archival sources and periodicals; explore the ideas and activism of white, black, Native American, and Latinx humanists; and carefully consider the influence of humanism throughout the African Diaspora on black humanism in the United States.

scholarly journals Book reviews

2010 ◽  
Vol 84 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 277-344
Author(s):  
Redactie KITLV
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Maritime Archaeology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Claude Mckay ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Caribbean Fiction

The Atlantic World, 1450-2000, edited by Toyin Falola & Kevin D. Roberts (reviewed by Aaron Spencer Fogleman) The Slave Ship: A Human History, by Marcus Rediker (reviewed by Justin Roberts) Extending the Frontiers: Essays on the New Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, edited by David Eltis & David Richardson (reviewed by Joseph C. Miller) "New Negroes from Africa": Slave Trade Abolition and Free African Settlement in the Nineteenth-Century Caribbean, by Rosanne Marion Adderley (reviewed by Nicolette Bethel) Atlantic Diasporas: Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in the Age of Mercantilism, 1500-1800, edited by Richard L. Kagan & Philip D. Morgan (reviewed by Jonathan Schorsch) Brother’s Keeper: The United States, Race, and Empire in the British Caribbean, 1937-1962, by Jason C. Parker (reviewed by Charlie Whitham) Labour and the Multiracial Project in the Caribbean: Its History and Promise, by Sara Abraham (reviewed by Douglas Midgett) Envisioning Caribbean Futures: Jamaican Perspectives, by Brian Meeks (reviewed by Gina Athena Ulysse) Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian, by Maureen Warner-Lewis (reviewed by Jon Sensbach) Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones, by Carole Boyce Davies (reviewed by Linden Lewis) Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Cultures, edited by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert & Ivette Romero-Cesareo (reviewed by Bill Maurer) Caribbean Migration to Western Europe and the United States: Essays on Incorporation, Identity, and Citizenship, edited by Margarita Cervantes-Rodríguez, Ramón Grosfoguel & Eric Mielants (reviewed by Gert Oostindie) Home Cooking in the Global Village: Caribbean Food from Buccaneers to Ecotourists, by Richard Wilk (reviewed by William H. Fisher) Dead Man in Paradise: Unraveling a Murder from a Time of Revolution, by J.B. MacKinnon (reviewed by Edward Paulino) Tropical Zion: General Trujillo, FDR, and the Jews of Sosúa, by Allen Wells (reviewed by Michael R. Hall) Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist, and Self-Making in Jamaica, by Gina A. Ulysse (reviewed by Jean Besson) Une ethnologue à Port-au-Prince: Question de couleur et luttes pour le classement socio-racial dans la capitale haïtienne, by Natacha Giafferi-Dombre (reviewed by Catherine Benoît) Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality, edited by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith & Claudine Michel (reviewed by Susan Kwosek) Cuba: Religion, Social Capital, and Development, by Adrian H. Hearn (reviewed by Nadine Fernandez) "Mek Some Noise": Gospel Music and the Ethics of Style in Trinidad, by Timothy Rommen (reviewed by Daniel A. Segal)Routes and Roots: Navigating Caribbean and Pacific Island Literatures, by Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey (reviewed by Anthony Carrigan) Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance, by Gary Edward Holcomb (reviewed by Brent Hayes Edwards) The Sense of Community in French Caribbean Fiction, by Celia Britton (reviewed by J. Michael Dash) Imaging the Chinese in Cuban Literature and Culture, by Ignacio López-Calvo (reviewed by Stephen Wilkinson) Pre-Columbian Jamaica, by P. Allsworth-Jones (reviewed by William F. Keegan) Underwater and Maritime Archaeology in Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton & Pilar Luna Erreguerena (reviewed by Erika Laanela)

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