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The African diaspora : slavery, modernity, and globalization /

by Falola, Toyin.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookDescription: xiv, 418 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781580464529 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1580464521 (hardcover : alk. paper).Subject(s): African diaspora | Globalization -- Africa | Africans -- United States | Yoruba (African people) -- United States | Transnationalism | Slave trade -- Africa
Contents:
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
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DT16.5 .F35 2013 (Browse shelf) C1 Available Material Available in hard copy 2018-1061

Includes bibliographical references (pages [377]-409) and index

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

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