Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora

This volume investigates the often-overlooked African presence in Asia, determining how many of these diasporic populations fared in the context of political independence, globalization / economic marginalization, and the presence of ethnic conflict and institutional racism, even with positive class formations and declining significance of race in other geographical areas.

Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora is a response to a 1990 publication that studied the persistence and resilience of black (African) diasporic populations in the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and the United Kingdom. In that book, the authors used the themes of persistence and resilience to interrogate the social processes and the coping repertoire of these diasporic populations. This volume investigates the often-overlooked African presence in Asia. Researchers sought to determine how many of these diasporic populations have fared in the context of political independence, globalization / economic marginalization, and the presence of ethnic conflict and institutional racism, even with positive class formations and declining significance of race in other geographical areas. Prescriptions for the continued viability of these diasporic populations are provided. India and China are undergoing a global renaissance, emerging as potentially significant economic, political, and cultural actors on the world scene. Meanwhile, ancestral Africa is still socially, politically, and economically fragmented, thereby causing a new migratory 'push' to North America and Europe.

Chapter 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 Preface
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 PART I: An Examination of Europe and Asia
Chapter 5 The African Presence in Asia, with Special Reference to India
Chapter 6 Race, Ethnicity, and Development in the Atlantic World in the New Century
Chapter 7 PART II: An Examination of the Caribbean
Chapter 8 3. From Independence to the Twenty-First Century: The Challenges Facing the Commonwealth Caribbean Societies
Chapter 9 4. Being Caribbean: Writing de Caribbean and its Diaspora in the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 10 PART III: An Examination of North America - Canada/U.S.A.
Chapter 11 On the Record: The Testimony of Canada's Black Pioneers
Chapter 12 Race, Racism, and Manifestations of Inequality in Canadian Society
Chapter 13 African-Americans and African-West Indians Relations in New York City, 1900-1952: Conflict, Reconciliation, and Cooperation
Chapter 14 PART IV: Some Cultural Aspects of the Diaspora
Chapter 15 The Notion of Realness in the Success of Tupac Shakur and Bob Marley
Chapter 16 "What Happens in Haiti Has Repercussions Which Far Transcend Haiti Itself": Walter White, Haiti, and the Public Relations Campaign, 1947-1955
Chapter 17 PART V: Institutional Impacts and Adaptations in the Diaspora
Chapter 18 Media and the Diaspora
Chapter 19 The West Indian Diaspora to the U.S.A: Remittancesand Development of the Homeland
Chapter 20 Notes on Contributors
Chapter 21 Index