The African Diaspora and the Disciplines

Focusing on the problems and conflicts of doing African diaspora research from various disciplinary perspectives, this title features essays that situate, describe, and reflect on the practice of diaspora scholarship. It seeks to enlarge the understanding of how the diaspora is conceived and explores the possibilities for the future of its study.

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 enlarge understanding of 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.

Acknowledgments
Introduction-
Tejumola Olaniyan and James H. Sweet
Part 1. Histories
1. Clio and the Griot: The African Diaspora in the Discipline of History

Kim D. Butler
2. African Diaspora and Anthropology

Richard Price
3. How Genetics Can Provide Detail to the Transatlantic African Diaspora

Fatimah L. C. Jackson and Latifa F. J. Borgelin
4. Landscapes and Places of Memory: African Diaspora Research and Geography

Judith A. Carney
5. African Diaspora in Archaeology

Theresa A. Singleton
Part 2. Social Sciences
6. Caribbean Sociology, Africa, and the African Diaspora

Paget Henry
7.
African Diaspora and Political Science

Robert Fatton, Jr.
8. The African Diaspora and Philosophy

Olufemi Taiwo
Part 3. Arts and Culture
9.
"Function at the Junction"?: African Diaspora Studies and Theatre Studies

Sandra L. Richards
10. Ethnomusicology and the African Diaspora

Melvin L. Butler
11. Semioptics of Africana Art History

Moyo Okediji
12. Out of Context: Thinking Cultural Studies Diasporically

Grant Farred
Part 4. Diaspora Contexts
13. African Diaspora Studies in the Creole-Anglophone Caribbean: A Perspective from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

Carolyn Cooper
14. South Africa's Elusive Quest for an African Identity: The Ironies of a South Africa-led African Renaissance
Xolela Mangcu
15. "Black Folk Here and There": Repositioning Other(ed) African Diaspora(s) in/and "Europe"

Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe List of Contributors
Index