‘A Conference That Didn’t’: African Diaspora Studies and an episode in anthropology’s identity politics of representation

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin A Yelvington
Keyword(s):  
African Diaspora ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Politics Of Representation ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
African Diaspora Studies

African Diaspora Studies: Some International Dimensions

1996 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 6-8
Author(s):  
Joseph E. Harris
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
African Diaspora Studies

When I was asked to share some of my reflections on the evolution of African Diaspora studies in the United States, I recalled that a colleague and I mused about the appearance of recent advertisements in scholarly journals for African Diaspora specialists. We also observed that several colleges and universities have courses with African Diaspora in the title. Indeed, Diaspora as a description of the dispersion and settlement of Africans abroad is fairly common in academic parlance today and increasingly so in popular discussions; however, such has not always been the case.

On décalages in the African Diaspora

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 162-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Fila-Bakabadio
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Diaspora Studies ◽  
Pan Africanism ◽  
The Future ◽  
African Diaspora Studies ◽  
Do So

Abstract This paper explores Brent Edwards’s 2001 notion of “décalage” and its role in the evolution of the African diaspora studies. I argue that this notion should be profoundly considered in envisioning the future of the field since it not only reflects the original chasm between African and African-American understandings of the diaspora as Edwards states, but it also illustrates how the diaspora has gradually turned into multiple and sometimes scattered diasporas. I also contend that this multiplicity forces us to question what unites African and Afro-descendants today. I do so relying on Gilles Deleuze’s disjunctive synthesis to examine these three dimensions of diasporan relations. I also discuss how ideological frameworks such as Pan-Africanism or Négritude bridged differences thanks to key ideas of emancipation, black existence and connected struggles. I finally explore contemporary models that could renew diaspora studies: Africana and Afro-liminalities.

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