African Diaspora and the Disciplines

Tejumola Olaniyan is the Louise Durham Mead Professor of English and African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is author of Arrest the Music! (IUP, 2004).James H. Sweet is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is author of Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441–1770.

"Overall, this collection is a very timely and useful contribution to the slowly emerging body of studies of the African diasporas."—Centre for African Studies"The African Diaspora and the Disciplines is a cutting-edge publication that is long overdue. Apart from general readers, it can be recommended for upper-level African diaspora courses and graduate theory and methods courses. Its discussion of genetic diasporas in particular will serve as a scientific and biological bridge linking New World black diasporic ideation about notions of a "homeland" and the environs where these homes sprouted prior to the Middle Passage."—Africa Today"The African Diaspora and the Disciplines . . . ranks as an excellent contribution to the growing field [of African diaspora studies]. . . . [I]t is a cogent, suggestive work that will energize scholars across the disciplines to further mine this rich vein."—postcolonialnetworks.com"The volume as a whole reflects a courageous effort: it goes beyond empirical specifics of the African diaspora to provide an interim report on intellectual work crossing the boundaries of national units and disciplinary boxes. Vol. 52.2, 2011"—Journal of African History"Opens the way for a still emergent field, emergent in its attention to how global histories and processes figure in geographic regions and subjects beyond the Cold War configuration of regional political alliances."—Paulla Ebron, Stanford University"Truly remarkable, innovative, important, and critical scholarship that is unparalleled in its interventions at the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological levels."—Percy Hintzen, University of California, Berkeley

• Introduction / Tejumola Olaniyan and James H. SweetPart 1. Histories1. Clio and the Griot: The African Diaspora in the Discipline of History / Kim D. Butler2. African Diaspora and Anthropology / Richard Price3. How Genetics Can Provide Detail to the Transatlantic African Diaspora / Fatimah L. C. Jackson and Latifa F. J. Borgelin4. Landscapes and Places of Memory: African Diaspora Research and Geography / Judith A. Carney5. African Diaspora in Archaeology / Theresa A. SingletonPart 2. Social Sciences6. Caribbean Sociology, Africa, and the African Diaspora / Paget Henry7. African Diaspora and Political Science / Robert Fatton Jr.8. The African Diaspora and Philosophy / Olúfémi TáíwòPart 3. Arts and Culture9. "Function at the Junction"? African Diaspora Studies and Theater Studies / Sandra L. Richards10. Ethnomusicology and the African Diaspora / Melvin L. Butler11. Semioptics of Africana Art History / Moyo Okediji12. Out of Context: Thinking Cultural Studies Diasporically / Grant FarredPart 4. Diaspora Contexts13. African Diaspora Studies in the Creole-Anglophone Caribbean: A Perspective from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica / Carolyn Cooper14. South Africa's Elusive Quest for an African Identity: The Ironies of a South Africa–Led African Renaissance / Xolela Mangcu15. "Black Folk Here and There": Repositioning Other(ed) African Diaspora(s) in/and "Europe" / Jayne O. IfekwunigweContributorsIndex