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4 unusual facts about African Diaspora


Cedric Robinson

Robinson's fields of research include classical and modern political thought, radical social theory in the African diaspora, comparative politics, and media and politics.

Claude Clegg

Claude Clegg is a historian who specialises in the history of the African diaspora in the Americas.

Hortense Spillers

A scholar of the African diaspora, Spillers is known for her essays on African-American literature in Black, White, and In Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, published by the University of Chicago Press in 2003 and Comparative American Identities: Race, Sex, and Nationality in the Modern Text, published by Routledge in 1991.

Lawrence Ross

In it, Ross chronicles the stories of black people from throughout the African diaspora.


Additive rhythm and divisive rhythm

The most basic duple-pulse figure found in the Music of Africa and music of the African diaspora is a figure the Cubans call tresillo, a Spanish word meaning 'triplet' (three equal beats in the same time as two main beats).

Africultures

Africultures is a publication of arts and culture about and from Africa and its diasporas, founded in 1996 and based in France, in Les Pilles and Paris.

Afrofuturism

First coined by Mark Dery in 1993, Afrofuturism addresses themes and concerns of the African Diaspora through a technoculture and science fiction lens.

Colonisation of Africa

The existence of a vast African diaspora is a legacy of the practice of transporting millions of African slaves out of the continent by these external colonisers.

Jackie McLean

In 1970, he and his wife, Dollie McLean, founded the Artists Collective, Inc. of Hartford, an organization dedicated to preserving the art and culture of the African Diaspora.

Tidiane N'Diaye

He is the author of a number of publications on the history of Black Africa and the African diaspora, as well as numerous economic studies of the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques on the French overseas departments (Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique).

United States Poet Laureate

Rita Dove, considered the first activist poet laureate, brought together writers to explore the African diaspora through the eyes of its artists, championed children's poetry and jazz with poetry events and read at the White House during Bill Clinton's first state dinner.


see also

Afrolicious

In addition to the following releases, Afrolicious is loosely affiliated with a worldwide group of DJs, producers, bands, and labels who produce contemporary soulful dance music inspired by sounds of the African diaspora, including Antibalas, Chico Mann, Nickodemus, DJ Smash, Wonderwheel Recordings, Subsuelo, and Cumba Mela.

Crossing the River

:"With irony, understatement, and artful compression ... Phillips distills the African diaspora to an essence, bitter, and unforgettable." —Entertainment Weekly

Hazel Carby

One of her most influential contributions to African Diaspora studies came with her first book, Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist.

Kimathi Donkor

Kimathi Donkor’s history paintings “fearlessly tackle key, dramatic, monumental moments of African diaspora history… with a painterly preciseness that borders on aesthetic frugality”, according to art historian Eddie Chambers.

Oshun

Miguel A. De La Torre, "Dancing with Ochún: Imagining How a Black Goddess Became White," in Black Religion and Aesthetics: Religious Thought and Life in Africa and the African Diaspora, Anthony Pinn, ed.

Shaggy

Shaggy Flores (born 1973), Nuyorican poet, writer and African diaspora scholar