Migration and identity

WEEK 13 Diasporas: the comparative, historical and sociological study of diasporas

18.1.2005

How do you define, typologise and compare diasporas?
Ages, Arnold (1973) The diaspora dimension, Hague: Martinus Nijhoff

Armstrong, John A. (1976) ‘Mobilized and proletarian diasporas’, American Political Science Review, 70 (2), 393-408

Brah, A. (1996). Cartographies of diaspora, London: Routledge {rather abstract/post-modernist}

Bruneau, M. (1994) ‘Diaspora: space and theory’ Espace géographique, 23 (1), 5-18

Chaliand, Gérard; Rageau, Jean-Pierre (1995) The Penguin atlas of diasporas, London: Viking Penguin*

Clifford, J. (1997) Routes: travel and translation in the late twentieth century. Harvard University Press

Clifford, James (1994) ‘Diasporas’ Cultural Anthropology 9 (3) 302-38*

Clifford, James (1994) ‘Travelling Cultures’ in L. Grossberg et al. Cultural Studies New York: Routledge, 96-116*

Cohen, R. (1996). ‘Diasporas and the nation- state: from victims to challengers’, International Affairs, 72 (3), 507-520

Cohen, Robin (1995) ‘Rethinking Babylon: Iconoclastic Conceptions of the Diasporic Experience’, New Community, 21 (1), 5–18

Cohen, Robin (1997) Global diasporas: an introduction London: UCL Press*(esp Chaps. 1)

Hall, S. (1994). ‘Cultural identity and diaspora’ in P. Williams and L. Chrisman (eds), Colonial discourse and post-colonial theory, New York: Columbia University Press {same article as Hall 1990)

Hannerz, Ulf (1996) Transnational connections: culture, people, places, London: Routledge

Kristeva, J. (1993) Nations without nationalism, Columbia: Columbia University Press

Lie, J. (1995) ‘From international migration to transnational diaspora’, Contemporary Sociology, 24 (4), 303-306

Mitchell, K. (1997) ‘ Different diasporas and the hype of hybridity’, Environment and Planning, 15 (5), 509-532

Nandy, A. (1990) ‘Dialogue and the diaspora’, Third Text, 11, 99-108

Neuman, M. (1991) ‘Utopia, dystopia, diaspora’, Journal of American planning association, 57 (3), 344–7

Pinson, K.S. (1962) ‘Diaspora’, Encyclopaedia Britanica, 7, 320-321

Review of above by W. Safran ‘Comparing diasporas’ Diaspora 8 (3) 1999, 258-291*

Safran, W (1991) ‘Diasporas in Modern Society: Myths of Homeland and Return’ Diaspora 1 (1), 83-99*

Safran, W. (1991) ‘Ethnicity and pluralism: comparative and theoretical perspectives’, Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, 18 (1-2), 1-12

heffer, G. (1986) ‘A new field of study: modern diasporas in international politics’ in Gabriel Sheffer (ed.), Modern diasporas in international politics, London: Croom Helm {this article and the book more generally is useful}*

Tolyolan, Khachig (1996) ‘Rethinking diaspora(s): stateless power in the transnational moment’, Diaspora, 5 (1), 3-36

Vertovec, S. (1997). ‘Diaspora’, in E. Cashmore (ed.), Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations London: Routledge
Self Check: You should be able to distinguish traditional from contemporary uses of the idea of diaspora and be familiar with the major types of diaspora.

WEEK 14 The African ‘victim diaspora’

25.1.2005

Jews, Armenian, Africans (and, later, Irish and Palestinians) can be regarded as exemplary or probable candidates for the title of ‘victim diasporas’. Using the African case we will look at how this affected their lives in the New World, their cultural and political attitudes their places of origin and destination and their involvement in return movements to Africa.
Bascom, William Russell (1992) African folktales in the New World, Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Bascom, William Russell and Melville J. Herskovits (eds.) (1958) Continuity and change in African cultures, Chicago: Chicago University Press

Bastide, Roger (1972) African civilisations in the New World, London: Christopher. Hurst

Bonnett, Aubrey W. and C. Llewellyn Watson (eds.) (1990) Emerging perspectives on the black diaspora, Lanham, MD: University Press of America

Cohen Global diasporas Chapter 2*

Conniff, M. L. (1994) Africans in the Americas: A history of the black diaspora, New York: St Martin’s Press

Cromwell, Adelaide M. (ed.) (1987) Dynamics of the African/Afro-American connection: From dependency to self-reliance, Washington: Howard University Press

Drachler, Jacob (ed.) (1975) Black homeland, black diaspora: Cross currents of the African relationship, Port Washington, NY: Kennikat Press

Harris, Joseph E. (1982) Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora, Washington, DC: Howard University Press [DT 14.G5]**

Harris, Joseph E. (1987) Repatriates and refugees in a colonial society: the case of Kenya, Washington, DC: Howard University Press

Harris, Joseph E.(1971) The African presence in Asia: Consequences of the east African slave trade, Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press

Henderson, J. P. and H. A. Reed (eds) Studies in the African diaspora: a memorial to James R Hooker 1929-76 (Dover, Mass: The Majority Press, 1989)*

Herskovits, M. J. (ed.) (1961) The New World Negro: selected papers in Afro-America studies, Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Holloway, Joseph E. (1990) Africanisms in American culture, Bloomington: Indiana University Press

Hooks, Rosie Lee (ed.) (1986) Black people and their culture: selected writings from the African diaspora, Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institute

Irwin, Graham W. (ed.) (1977) Africans abroad: a documentary history of the black diaspora in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean during the age of slavery, New York: Colombia University Press

Killingray, David (ed.) (1992) Africans in Britain, London: Frank Cass

Kilson, M. (ed.) (1971) Apropos of Africa: Afro-American leaders and the romance of Africa, Garden City, NY: Ander Books

Kilson, Martin L. and Robert I. Rotberg (eds.) (1976) The African diaspora: Interpretative essays, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press*

Lemelle, S. J. et al. (1994) Imagining home: class, culture and nationalism in the African diaspora, London: Verso*

Magubane, B.M (1978) The Ties that Bind: African-American consciousness of Africa, Trenton: Africa World Press

Nascimento, A. D. et al. (1992) Africans in Brazil: A pan African perspective, Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press

Pieterse, Jan Nerderveen (1995) White on black: Images of Africa and blacks in western popular culture, New Haven: Yale University Press

Segal, Ronald (1995) The black diaspora London: Faber*

Shepperson, G. (1968) ‘The African abroad or the African diaspora’, in T. O Ranger (ed.) Emerging themes in African history, Nairobi: East Africa Publishing House

Sorenson, J. (1992) ‘Essence and contingency in the construction of nationhood: transformations of identity in Ethiopia and its diasporas’, Diasporas, 2 (2) 202-230

Steady, F. C. (ed.) (1981) The black woman cross-culturally: An overview, Cambridge, Mass.: Schenkman Publishing Company

Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn et al.(eds.) (1987) Women in Africa and the African diaspora, Washington DC: Howard University Press

Thompson, Vincent Bakpetu (1988) The making of the African diaspora in the Americas 1441–1900, Harlow: Longman

Uya, Okon Edet (1992) African diaspora and the black experience in New World slavery, New Rochelle, NY: Third Press Publishers (rev. ed)

Williams, Lorraine A. (ed.) (1977) Africa and the Afro-American experience: eight essays, Washington: Howard University Press

Williams, Vernon J. (1989) From a caste to a minority: changing attitudes of American sociologists toward Afro–Americans, 1896–1945, New York: Greenwood Press

Wintz, Cory D. (1988) Black culture and the Harlem Renaissance, Houston, TX: Rice University Press
Self-check: You should have a good idea of how the African diaspora in the Americas was formed, and what were the main lines of cultural and political association with and distance from the African continent.