ABSTRACT
"Black," "African," "African descendant" and "of African heritage," are just some of the ways Africans and Africans in the diaspora (both old and new) describe themselves. This volume examines concepts of race, ethnicity, and identity as they are ascribed to people of colour around the world, examining different case studies of how the process of identity formation occurred and is changing.
Contributors to this volume, selected from a wide range of academic and cultural backgrounds, explore issues that encourage a deeper understanding of race, ethnicity and identity. As our notions about what it means to be black or of African heritage change as a result of globalization, it is important to reassess how these issues are currently developing, and the origins from which these issues developed.
Global Africans is an important and insightful book, useful to a wide range of students and scholars, particularly of African studies, sociology, diaspora studies, and race and ethnic studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|104 pages
Shifting identities
chapter 2|23 pages
Brothers of the trade
chapter 3|25 pages
Paradoxes and contradictions between African Diasporas and resident Africans in the search for an identity
chapter 4|18 pages
Mobile communities of the Indian Ocean
chapter 5|17 pages
Reinventing the nation in Africa
part II|71 pages
Ethnicity and African agency
chapter 6|17 pages
From brain-drain to brain-gain
chapter 7|13 pages
Educação e ações afirmativas
chapter 8|10 pages
Back to Africa: Roy Campbell’s Voorslag
chapter 9|11 pages
‘Nobody Knows de Troubles I’ve Seen’
part III|50 pages
Race and populations at stake
