Global Africans Race, Ethnicity and Shifting Identities [Hardcover]

Black, African, African descendant  and of African heritage, are just some of the ways Africans and Africans in the diaspora (both old and new) describe themselves. This volume examines concepts of race, ethnicity, and identity as they are ascribed to people of colour around the world, examining different case studies of how the process of identity formation occurred and is changing.

Contributors to this volume, selected from a wide range of academic and cultural backgrounds, explore issues that encourage a deeper understanding of race, ethnicity and identity. As our notions about what it means to be black or of African heritage change as a result of globalization, it is important to reassess how these issues are currently developing, and the origins from which these issues developed.

Global Africansis an important and insightful book, useful to a wide range of students and scholars, particularly of African studies, sociology, diaspora studies, and race and ethnic studies.

 

Introduction, Toyin Falola and Cacee Hoyer

1. Diaspora Intellectuals, Alienation, and the Production of Africa in the Euro-American Academy, Moses Ochonu

2. Brothers of the Trade: A New Direction in Examining the Intersections of Racial Framing and Identity Processes upon African-Americans and African Immigrants in America, Veeda V. Williams

3. Paradoxes and Contradictions between African Diasporas and Resident Africans in the Search for an Identity: A Nigerian Outlook, Olusegun Michael Osinibi

4. Mobile Communities of the Indian Ocean: A Brief Study of Siddi and Hadrami Diaspora in Hyderabad City, India, Khatija Khader

5. Reinventing the Nation in Africa: The Political Writings of Chinua Achebe and Wole Soló5