The African Diaspora and the Disciplines

Focusing on the problems and conflicts of doing African diaspora research from various disciplinary perspectives, these essays situate, describe, and reflect on the current practice of diaspora scholarship. Tejumola Olaniyan, James H. Sweet, and the international group of contributors assembled here seek to fill significant gaps in how the diaspora is conceived and explore possibilities for the future of its study. With the aim of initiating interdisciplinary dialogues on the practice of African diaspora studies, they emphasize learning from new perspectives that take advantage of intersections between disciplines. Ultimately, they advocate a fuller sense of what it means to study the African diaspora in a truly global way.

Tejumola Olaniyan is Professor of English and African Languages and Literatures at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is author of Arrest the Music! (IUP, 2004).

James H. Sweet is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is author of Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441--1770.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Histories
Clio and the Griot: The African Diaspora in the Discipline of History	p. 21
African Diaspora and Anthropology	p. 53
How Genetics Can Provide Detail to the Transatlantic African Diaspora	p. 75
Landscapes and Places of Memory: African Diaspora Research and Geography	p. 101
African Diaspora in Archaeology	p. 119
Social Sciences
Caribbean Sociology, Africa, and the African Diaspora	p. 145
African Diaspora and Political Science	p. 161
The African Diaspora and Philosophy	p. 173
Arts and Culture
"Function at the Junction"? African Diaspora Studies and Theater Studies	p. 193
Ethnomusicology and the African Diaspora	p. 213
Semioptics of Africana Art History	p. 234
Out of Context: Thinking Cultural Studies Diasporically	p. 256
Diaspora Contexts
African Diaspora Studies in the Creole-Anglophone Caribbean: A Perspective from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica	p. 279
South Africa's Elusive Quest for an African Identity: The Ironies of a South Africa-Led African Renaissance	p. 298
"Black Folk Here and There": Repositioning Other(ed) African Diaspora(s) in/and "Europe"	p. 313
Contributors	p. 339
Index	p. 343
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