African Identity in Asia

African Identity in Asia PDF Author: Shihan de S. Jayasuriya
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Eastbound Africans -- The African presence in Asia -- Dispersal of Africans across the Indian Ocean -- The military role of Africans -- Sounds of Africa -- The history and sociology of African migrants -- Reflections on African displacement.

African Identity in Asia

African Identity in Asia PDF Author: Shihan de S. Jayasuriya
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182

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Book Description
Eastbound Africans -- The African presence in Asia -- Dispersal of Africans across the Indian Ocean -- The military role of Africans -- Sounds of Africa -- The history and sociology of African migrants -- Reflections on African displacement.

Afro Asia

Afro Asia PDF Author: Fred Ho
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822381176
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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With contributions from activists, artists, and scholars, Afro Asia is a groundbreaking collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies linking African Americans and Asian Americans. Bringing together autobiography, poetry, scholarly criticism, and other genres, this volume represents an activist vanguard in the cultural struggle against oppression. Afro Asia opens with analyses of historical connections between people of African and of Asian descent. An account of nineteenth-century Chinese laborers who fought against slavery and colonialism in Cuba appears alongside an exploration of African Americans’ reactions to and experiences of the Korean “conflict.” Contributors examine the fertile period of Afro-Asian exchange that began around the time of the 1955 Bandung Conference, the first meeting of leaders from Asian and African nations in the postcolonial era. One assesses the relationship of two important 1960s Asian American activists to Malcolm X and the Black Panthers. Mao Ze Dong’s 1963 and 1968 statements in support of black liberation are juxtaposed with an overview of the influence of Maoism on African American leftists. Turning to the arts, Ishmael Reed provides a brief account of how he met and helped several Asian American writers. A Vietnamese American spoken-word artist describes the impact of black hip-hop culture on working-class urban Asian American youth. Fred Ho interviews Bill Cole, an African American jazz musician who plays Asian double-reed instruments. This pioneering collection closes with an array of creative writing, including poetry, memoir, and a dialogue about identity and friendship that two writers, one Japanese American and the other African American, have performed around the United States. Contributors: Betsy Esch, Diane C. Fujino, royal hartigan, Kim Hewitt, Cheryl Higashida, Fred Ho, Everett Hoagland, Robin D. G. Kelley, Bill V. Mullen, David Mura, Ishle Park, Alexs Pate, Thien-bao Thuc Phi, Ishmael Reed, Kalamu Ya Salaam, Maya Almachar Santos, JoYin C. Shih, Ron Wheeler, Daniel Widener, Lisa Yun

Uncovering the History of Africans in Asia

Uncovering the History of Africans in Asia PDF Author: Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004162917
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Study of the African diaspora is now a dynamic field in the development of new methods and approaches to African history. This book brings together the latest research on African diaspora in Asia with case studies about India and the Indian Ocean islands.

African Communities in Asia and the Mediterranean

African Communities in Asia and the Mediterranean PDF Author: Ehud R. Toledano
Publisher: Africa Research and Publications
ISBN: 9781592218509
Category : African diaspora
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Identities Between Integration and Conflict. The undeniable presence of the past and its cultural vestiges in displaced populations has been a noticeable feature of displaced populations across the globe. Yet the Mediterranean and Indian ocean region has not been a focus of study, something which this study seeks to remedy. The author's bring a clear understanding of the similarities and differences that existed between the types, modes and practises of enslavement in these wide spaces compared to other regions.

Conceptualizing/Re-conceptualizing Africa

Conceptualizing/Re-conceptualizing Africa PDF Author: Maghan Keita
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004474757
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Africa is a legitimizing factor in the world: some might argue because of the weakness of its position in the world; others might say because of the realization on the part of some African leaders that there are strengths inherent to their states' positions that can be tapped. Africa’s place in the world is being re-thought and re-shaped. And that is exactly what this book is about: the authors invite and incite the reader to a much closer and nuanced reading of Africa and its history, and the way in which that history, over time and space allows for a re-conceptualization of Africa’s role and place in the world. The authors evoke W.E.B. Du Bois on the invention of identity in the modern world. In that light, these works remind us, as Du Bois would, that the current invention of Africa is indeed a modern one; an identity configured in numerous ways, with and without our interventions. Contributions by Lamont de Haven King (State and Ethnicity in Nigeria), Jesse Benjamin (Nubians and Nabateans), Jeremy Prestholdt (Portuguese on the Swahili Coast), Thomas Ricks (Slaves in Shi’i Iran, AD 1500-1900) Launay Robert (Late-Seventeenth Century Narratives of Travel to Asia) and Richard J. Payne and Cassandra Veney (Taiwan and Africa)

Narrating Africa in South Asia

Narrating Africa in South Asia PDF Author: Mahmood Kooria
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000907058
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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The coastal belts and hinterlands of East Africa and South Asia have historically shared a number of cultural traits, commodities and cosmologies circulated on the wings of the monsoon winds. The forced and voluntary migrations of Asians and Africans across the Indian Ocean littoral over several centuries have reverberated in the memories, literatures, travelogues and religious, architectural, and socio-political imaginations of both the regions. And, they continue to do so in various forms and platforms. This book explores nuances of various narratives on these long-term transcultural exchanges with a special focus on India. It explores the ways in which Africa and Africans have been narrated in South Asian history and culture in order to unravel the nuanced layers of reflexive, rhetorical, stereotypical, populist, racialist, racist and casteist frameworks that informed diverse narratives in vernacular texts, songs, films and newspaper reports. Emphasizing the interdisciplinary approaches of narratology, Afro-Asian studies, and Indian Ocean studies, the contributors enunciate how the African lives in South Asia have been selectively remembered or systematically forgotten. Through multi-sited ethnographies, multilingual archival researches and interdisciplinary frameworks, each chapter provides theoretical engagements on the basis of empirical research in such regions as Gujarat, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Hyderabad and Mumbai as well as in Sri Lanka. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

Identity, Culture, and Politics

Identity, Culture, and Politics PDF Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Chinese in Africa

Chinese in Africa PDF Author: Obert Hodzi
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000727920
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 141

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Chinese in Africa explores the complexities of identities and forms in which the Chinese Migrants in Africa express their ‘Chineseness’. In its study of the Chinese diaspora in Africa, the book eschews tendencies to compound the Chinese by showing their distinctiveness in terms of history, culture, identity, and adaptation mechanisms. It pushes beyond the boundaries of ethnic and cultural homogenisation based on a perceived ‘Chinese’ physiognomy. The diversity and hybridity of the Chinese identity and expressions of Chineseness explored in this book’s seven chapters is essential to making sense of the historical and contemporary people to people engagements in Africa-China relations. The book brings together scholars from international relations, political science, sociology and area studies and draws from their field research and expertise in China and several African countries. A multidisciplinary volume, Chinese in Africa will be invaluable to scholars, students and policymakers interested in identities, and expressions of those identities. The chapters originally published as a special issue of Asian Ethnicity.

The African Diaspora in Asian Trade Routes and Cultural Memories

The African Diaspora in Asian Trade Routes and Cultural Memories PDF Author: Shihan de S. Jayasuriya
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780773436510
Category : African diaspora
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Conserving the Intangible

Conserving the Intangible PDF Author: Pheroze Nowrojee
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789966169457
Category : East Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 20

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