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The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture - Columbia Studies in International and Global History Manning, Patrick (Professor, University of Pittsburgh)
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The African Diaspora: A History Through Culture - Columbia Studies in International and Global History
Manning, Patrick (Professor, University of Pittsburgh)
Patrick Manning follows the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In joining these stories, he shows how the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Indian Ocean fueled dynamic interactions among black communities and cultures and how these patterns resembled those of a number of connected diasporas concurrently taking shaping across the globe. Manning begins in 1400 and traces the connections that enabled Africans to mutually identify and hold together as a global community. He tracks discourses on race, changes in economic circumstance, the evolving character of family life, and the growth of popular culture. He underscores the profound influence that the African diaspora had on world history and demonstrates the inextricable link between black migration and the rise of modernity. Inclusive and far-reaching, The African Diaspora proves that the advent of modernity cannot be fully understood without taking the African peoples and the African continent into account.
424 pages, 44 illus.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 19, 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231144704 |
| Publishers | Columbia University Press |
| Pages | 424 |
| Dimensions | 169 × 244 × 33 mm · 760 g |
