The African Diaspora African Origins and Ne World Identities [Paperback]

The African Diaspora contributes to the debate between those who believe that the African origin of blacks in Western society is central to their identity and outlook and those who deny that proposition.

Contributors include Niyi Afolabi, Adetayo Alabi, Celia M. Azevedo, Antonio Ben?tez-Rojo, Eliana Guerreiro Ramos Bennett, LeGrace Benson, Ira Kincade Blake, Jack S. Blocker, Jr., Sharon Aneta Bryant, Michael J. C. Echeruo, Peter P. Ekeh, Patience Elabor-Idemudia, David Evans, Robert Elliot Fox, Andrea Frohne, Joseph E. Inikori, Joyce Ann Joyce, Joseph McLaren, Charles Martin, Ali A. Mazrui, Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure, Nkiru Nzegwu, Isidore Okpewho, Oyekan Owomoyela, Laura J. Pires-Hester, Richard Price, Sally Price, Jean Rahier, Sandra L. Richards, Elliott P. Skinner, Alvin B. Tillery, Jr., Keith Q. Warner, Maureen Warner-Lewis, and Kimberly Welch.

Isidore Okpewho was Chair of Afro-American and African Studies at the State University of New York, Binghamton, and convener of the conference (in 1996) that gave rise to this book.

Carole Boyce Davies is Director of African-New World Studies and Professor of English at Florida International University.

Ali A. Mazrui is Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at the State University of New York, Binghamton, and author of more than twenty books.

Acknowledgments
Introduction, Isidore Okpewho
Part 1. The Diaspora: Orientations and Determinations
1. Michael J. C. Echeruo, An African Diaspora: The Ontological Project
2. Maureen Warner-Lewis, Cultural Reconfigurations in the African Caribbean
3. Elliott P. Skinner, The Restoration of African Identity for a New Millenium
Part 2. Addressing the Constraints
4. Joseph E. Inikori, Slaves or Serfs?: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Serfdom in Europe and Africa
5. Richard Price, Modernity, Memory, Martinique
6. Peter P. Ekeh, Kinship and State in African and African American Histories
7. Jack S. Blocker, Jr., Wl®