Aubrey W. Bonnett is professor of American studies and co-coordinator of the African-American studies program at SUNY College, Old Westbury. He has received numerous awards in New York, California, and Maryland for furthering educational achievement among the racially disadvantaged. Calvin B. Holder, Ph.D. (Harvard), is a professor of history, former history department chair, and director of the African American Studies program at the College of Staten Island/CUNY.

A serious work by an extraordinary collection of scholars that should be commended for its inclusion of the diasporas of India, Guyana, and Haiti that has received limited, at best, attention in the literature…[Bonnett and Holder] should be applauded for their commitment to produce this volume at this historical juncture…

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