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Charting Racial Formations in the New U.S. South: Reflections on North Carolina’s Latino, African-American, and Afro-Latino Relations
(2008-09-11)
The term “New South” has been used for over a hundred years to describe and categorize the Southern U.S. The desire to continually reinvent the South suggests that the current transformations of the region’s economy, ...
The Cultural Politics of Paul Robeson and Richard Wright: Theorizing the African Diaspora
(Center for Africana Studies, 2008)
Confronted with the task of defining what it meant to be black in an anti-black world, early cultural critics faced intellectual, existential, and political challenges. This paper focuses on how Paul Robeson and Richard ...
African Diasporas and the Atlantic
(The Atlantic in Global History, 1500-2000, edited by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra and Eric R. Seeman, 129-147. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2007)
As a cursory consultation of any library catalog quickly confirms, the African diaspora
as both concept and field of study is overwhelmingly defined by Atlantic scholarship.
This is paradoxical in two respects. The ...
Africa and Its Diasporas: Remembering South America
(Center for Africana Studies, 2008-08-21)
African interest in the Diaspora has never been greater than it is now. This is evident in the growing attention paid to the subject by African scholars and governments. The motivations are as varied as they are complex. ...