Falola, Toyin
The African diaspora : slavery, modernity, and globalization / Toyin Falola - xiv, 418 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Introduction: the old and the new African diaspora -- Africa and slavery in a transnational context -- The slave mutiny of 1839: the colonization of memory and spaces -- The centralization of Africa and the intellectualization of blackness -- Communalism, Africanism, and Pan-Africanism -- Atlantic Yoruba and the expanding frontiers of Yoruba culture and politics -- Politics, slavery, servitude, and the construction of Yoruba identity -- Orisa music, dance, and modernity -- Western education and Transatlantic connections -- Africa in the diaspora and the diaspora in Africa: toward an integrated body of knowledge -- Tanure Ojaide and Akin Ogundiran: knowledge circulation and the diasporic interface -- Nollywood and the creative world of Aderonke Adesola Adesanya: the African impact on global cultures -- Globalization and contemporary cultures -- Postscript: United States foreign policy on Africa in the twenty-first century
9781580464529 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1580464521 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2013011247
African diaspora
Globalization--Africa
Africans--United States
Yoruba (African people)--United States
Transnationalism
Slave trade--Africa
DT16.5 / .F35 2013
909.0496
The African diaspora : slavery, modernity, and globalization / Toyin Falola - xiv, 418 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Introduction: the old and the new African diaspora -- Africa and slavery in a transnational context -- The slave mutiny of 1839: the colonization of memory and spaces -- The centralization of Africa and the intellectualization of blackness -- Communalism, Africanism, and Pan-Africanism -- Atlantic Yoruba and the expanding frontiers of Yoruba culture and politics -- Politics, slavery, servitude, and the construction of Yoruba identity -- Orisa music, dance, and modernity -- Western education and Transatlantic connections -- Africa in the diaspora and the diaspora in Africa: toward an integrated body of knowledge -- Tanure Ojaide and Akin Ogundiran: knowledge circulation and the diasporic interface -- Nollywood and the creative world of Aderonke Adesola Adesanya: the African impact on global cultures -- Globalization and contemporary cultures -- Postscript: United States foreign policy on Africa in the twenty-first century
9781580464529 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1580464521 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2013011247
African diaspora
Globalization--Africa
Africans--United States
Yoruba (African people)--United States
Transnationalism
Slave trade--Africa
DT16.5 / .F35 2013
909.0496