The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0231144717 ISBN13: 9780231144711 Release Date: March 2010 Publisher: Columbia University Press Length: 424 Pages Weight: 1.35 lbs. Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1" Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In weaving these stories together, Manning shows how the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean fueled dynamic interactions among black communities and cultures and how these patterns resembled those of a number of connected diasporas concurrently taking shape across the globe. Manning begins in 1400 and traces five central themes: the connections that enabled Africans to mutually identify and hold together as a global community; discourses on race; changes in ec