Black Women in the African Diaspora Seeking Their Cultural Heritage Through Studying Abroad

2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose M. Morgan ◽  
Desideria T. Mwegelo ◽  
Laura N. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Studying Abroad

Black Women in the African Diaspora Seeking Their Cultural Heritage Through Studying Abroad

NASPA Journal ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rose M. Morgan ◽  
Desideria T. Mwegelo ◽  
Laura N. Turner
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
African Women ◽  
Black American ◽  
Mutual Learning ◽  
African Heritage ◽  
Studying Abroad ◽  
Black American Women ◽  
Women Of African Descent ◽  
And Gender

While African women and women of African heritage share many similar experiences, their continental separation causes them to have many differences. However, examining the collective experiences of African and Black women of African descent can help frame discussions about ethnic, racial, and gender identities. Central to this discussion is the question: How can African and Black American women connect to share their experiences and engage in mutual learning? World travel is one way for women to experience such an identity connection.

scholarly journals For a Black Lesbian Museology

2021 ◽  
pp. 5-41
Author(s):  
Geanine Vargas Escobar
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Black Lesbian ◽  
New Museology

In this paper, I introduce part of my academic-activist trajectory from a biomitography (Lorde, 1984) of “escrevivências” (Evaristo, 2007). With that, I present the crossing of my own political practices linked to my research practices as a museum professional and Sociomuseology activist. By establishing an approximation of the New Museology movement, of LGBT Museology, as well as of a museology permeated by the (in) visibility of narratives, memories and cultural heritage claimed by sexually dissident black women, I intend to articulate a territory of epistemic dispute for the nomination of a Black Lesbian Museology. Palavras-chave: Biomitografia, Escrevivências, Sociomuseologia, Museologia LGBT, Museologia Lésbica Negra. Keywords: Biomitography, Escrivivências, Sociomuseology, LGBT Museology, Black Lesbian Museology.

scholarly journals Honouring Caribbean Folk Cultures: A Personal Reflection

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-104
Author(s):  
Glenda-Rose Layne
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Personal Reflection ◽  
Folk Culture ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Sub Saharan

Drawing on my considerable knowledge of the field, this essay examines key components of the intangible cultural heritage of several Caribbean countries. It maps pictures of cultural similarities which can be traced to their roots in traditional sub-Saharan, African cultures. The article demonstrates that oral African cultural traditions derived from a rich cultural heritage are shared by the former Anglo and Francophone, Caribbean colonies. The article suggests that the cultural similarities in the folk culture, help Caribbean people to identify with each other as members of the larger African diaspora. Furthermore, the article also explores possible roles of synergy theatre, digitization and animation as mechanisms to maintain and retain the folk culture, once disseminated exclusively by our oral cultural traditions.

Dispossession of Land Cultures

2020 ◽  
pp. 152-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Throne
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Tourism Impact ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Property Ownership ◽  
Land Dispossession ◽  
Women Landowners

This chapter examined and presents the results of a heuristic and arts-based research and ongoing critical review of the Lowcountry heirs' property ownership and the recurrent generational challenges, governmental influences, and tourism impact on land dispossession and retention along the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor. In critically investigating this phenomenon of land dispossession, this study relied on Leavy's concept of coherence as it assessed the paucity of contemporaneous narratives of voices of women landowners. Land tenure, voice and land dispossession, freedom as ownership, and the culture of home/place are also explored as the legacy of the African diaspora, specifically among women landowners.

Sounding Off

Resonance ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-410
Author(s):  
Angela Tate
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Black Women ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Black Culture ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Radio History ◽  
Radio Broadcasting ◽  
Government Propaganda ◽  
Cultural Connections ◽  
Political Solidarity

The only traces of Etta Moten Barnett’s 1950s–’60s radio program, I Remember When, exist on well-worn cassette tapes (recently digitized) at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem. On these tapes are the only traces of not only Moten Barnett’s own career but also the immense network of activists, educators, and Pan-Africanists with whom she interacted. Many of them are now long forgotten or exist in the footnotes of better-known figures (often their husbands). What could be considered a project of recovery is also a project of tracing the use Black women made of radio broadcasting. I Remember When also provides an intriguing counternarrative to existing scholarship on Cold War radio history, which instead of looking West to East and from the perspective of government propaganda, now traces the networks across the diaspora in the struggle for independence and self-determination. Bringing the focus to Etta Moten Barnett and other Black women in radio raises questions about their stake in citizenship and political solidarity in this period. Through transcribing original broadcast recordings, and reading correspondence and newspaper articles, this paper documents the process of recovery, the cultural connections between women across the African diaspora, and their formation of a global Black community.

scholarly journals An Assessment of Ovarian Cancer Histotypes Across the African Diaspora

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophia H. L. George ◽  
Ayodele Omotoso ◽  
Andre Pinto ◽  
Aisha Mustapha ◽  
Alex P. Sanchez-Covarrubias ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ovarian Cancer ◽  
Black Women ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
White Women ◽  
Population Based ◽  
International Agency ◽  
Data Systems ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Cancer Data ◽  
Ovarian Cancers

ObjectiveOvarian cancer in Black women is common in many West African countries but is relatively rare in North America. Black women have worse survival outcomes when compared to White women. Ovarian cancer histotype, diagnosis, and age at presentation are known prognostic factors for outcome. We sought to conduct a preliminary comparative assessment of these factors across the African diaspora.MethodsPatients diagnosed with ovarian cancer (all histologies) between June 2016-December 2019 in Departments of Pathology at 25 participating sites in Nigeria were identified. Comparative population-based data, inclusive of Caribbean-born Blacks (CBB) and US-born Blacks (USB), were additionally captured from the International Agency for Research on Cancer and Florida Cancer Data Systems. Histology, country of birth, and age at diagnosis data were collected and evaluated across the three subgroups: USB, CBB and Nigerians. Statistical analyses were done using chi-square and student’s t-test with significance set at p<0.05.ResultsNigerians had the highest proportion of germ cell tumor (GCT, 11.5%) and sex-cord stromal (SCST, 16.2%) ovarian cancers relative to CBB and USB (p=0.001). CBB (79.4%) and USB (77.3%) women were diagnosed with a larger proportion of serous ovarian cancer than Nigerians (60.4%) (p<0.0001). Nigerians were diagnosed with epithelial ovarian cancers at the youngest age (51.7± 12.8 years) relative to USB (58.9 ± 15.0) and CBB (59.0± 13.0,p<0.001). Black women [CBB (25.2 ± 15.0), Nigerians (29.5 ± 15.1), and USB (33.9 ± 17.9)] were diagnosed with GCT younger than White women (35.4 ± 20.5, p=0.011). Black women [Nigerians (47.5 ± 15.9), USB (50.9 ± 18.3) and CBB (50.9 ± 18.3)] were also diagnosed with SCST younger than White women (55.6 ± 16.5, p<0.01).ConclusionThere is significant variation in age of diagnosis and distribution of ovarian cancer histotype/diagnosis across the African diaspora. The etiology of these findings requires further investigation.

scholarly journals Lizbona afrykańska

Politeja ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5(74)) ◽  
pp. 23-40
Author(s):  
Karolina Golemo
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Broad Sense ◽  
African Origin ◽  
The City

African Lisbon. Difficult Heritage, Postcolonial Relations, and Crosscultural Challenges The aim of this article is to synthetically capture African cultural influences from former colonies and various manifestations of the „African presence” in today’s Lisbon. This „African presence”, in a broad sense, includes a number of phenomena such as the living conditions and customs of the African diaspora in Lisbon, African elements in the cultural and tourist offer of the city, the activities of afrodescendentes (people of African origin) in the area of postcolonial relations, African traces in the topography of the city, and others. African cultural heritage is presented as dissonant, ambivalent, subject to various interpretations, also through the practices of post-memory. To illustrate these issues, I refer to a few examples of artistic projects and initiatives dealing with the topic of postcolonial relations in the Portuguese context.

scholarly journals The recognition of Brazilian samba de roda and reunion maloya as intangible cultural heritage of humanity

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 530-551
Author(s):  
Guillaume Samson ◽  
Carlos Sandroni
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Musical Instrument ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Reunion Island ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Local Media ◽  
Réunion Island ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Local Impact

In this essay, we present a comparative analysis of the UNESCO heritage nomination process for two African Diaspora music and dance forms: samba de roda, from the Bahian Recôncavo (a coastal area of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia), and maloya, from Reunion Island (a former French colony in the Indian Ocean, which is now officially an "overseas department of France"). samba de roda, as the Brazilian candidate, was included in the III Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Intangible Heritage of Humanity, in 2005. And maloya, the French candidate, was inscribed onto the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, in 2009. Despite a number of formal commonalities between samba de roda and maloya, such as responsorial singing, choreography, and the main musical instrument types, the controversies raised during their respective processes of nomination were quite distinct. The former is regarded as a traditional and less well known style of samba, the musical genre widely recognized as the musical emblem of Brazil. The latter competes with séga-a genre of popular music consolidated in the local media-for the position of chief musical representative of Reunion Island. The disparate symbolic identities attributed to these musical expressions pave the way for a distinct manner of employing the international resources related to the safeguarding of intangible heritage. This suggests that the local impact of the inclusion onto international lists depends as much on the contextual particularities of each candidacy as on central decision-making bodies such as UNESCO.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace Turner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
African Diaspora ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Black Folk ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Urban Contexts

The theoretical framework for this work is based on W.E.B. DuBois’s concept of “double consciousness” outlined in The Souls of Black Folk, 1903. This concept helps portray the transition from African-derived burial treatments in this urban cemetery for blacks to grave treatments that were less distinct from those in the cemeteries for whites. Archaeologically evidence of these grave treatments can be seen through time. Though most archaeological research in urban contexts is focused on cemeteries, a significant difference in this case is the focus on the cultural landscape within the cemetery space. The author’s familiarity with Bahamian historical and cultural heritage enables her to make a case for identifying an African-derived cemetery landscape. This urban cemetery site is an illustration of the variation in experiences within the African diaspora in the Americas.

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