This introduction explores the major themes addressed in this special issue, particularly how racial difference both structures the African diaspora and informs how scholars exploring this social formation engage with modes of knowledge production that reshape diaspora. In this way, … Continue reading “Introduction: Diaspora and the Localities of Race”
Issue: Issue 098 Diaspora & Race
Diaspora and the Localities of Race
The Racial State of the Everyday and the Making of Ethnic Statistics in Britain
jaqueline nassy brownThis article critically examines a common premise of racial discourse in contemporary multiracial societies: that ethnic data collection, in the form of population statistics, is necessary for the apprehension and eradication of discrimination. Drawing on ethnographic data from the conduct … Continue reading “The Racial State of the Everyday and the Making of Ethnic Statistics in Britain”
Left Out: Afro-Latinos, Black Baseball, and the Revision of Baseball's Racial History
adrian burgos jr.The project of recovering the history of the Negro Leagues, and in so doing establishing a more complete account of U.S. professional baseball’s segregated past, is fertile ground for interrogating the possibilities and limitations of diasporic frameworks. This article examines … Continue reading “Left Out: Afro-Latinos, Black Baseball, and the Revision of Baseball's Racial History”
Beyond Heritage Tourism: Race and the Politics of African-Diasporic Interactions
jemima pierreThis article engages the scholarly discussion of the booming heritage tourism industry in Ghana to explore the dynamics and politics of historical and contemporary African-diasporic interactions and provoke a critical revision of diaspora theory. I argue that Ghanaian-diaspora interactions in … Continue reading “Beyond Heritage Tourism: Race and the Politics of African-Diasporic Interactions”
Family Matters: Diaspora, Difference, and the Visual Archive
tina m. camptWhen and where do we “see” the emergence of a black German subject? Where do we encounter a visual instantiation of a black subject who is internal to German society and partakes of a relationship to this society that is … Continue reading “Family Matters: Diaspora, Difference, and the Visual Archive”
Feeling Diaspora in Harlem and Havana
frank guridyThis essay examines how diasporic commonalities are experienced in the midst of cultural and linguistic difference by highlighting the making of Afro-diasporic linkages by participants in the Harlem Renaissance and the Afro-Cubanism (afrocubanismo) movement. The essay interprets the traffic between … Continue reading “Feeling Diaspora in Harlem and Havana”