Atlantic African Diaspora Research Guide
The African Diaspora is a transnational, interdisciplinary field whose purpose is to elucidate the processes of dispersal and connection in the history of African peoples from the ancient world to the present. The more specialized field of the Atlantic African diaspora is characterized by the study of the forced migration of millions of Africans from the African continent to new societies around the Atlantic littoral; the nature of the new communities of African and African-descended peoples created in the Americas; the lateral relationships amongst and between those communities with others on the African continent; and the relationships amongst and between African-born, people of African descent, Europeans, and Amerindian populations in the Americas and in Europe. The field is temporally bounded by processes of enslavement, emancipation and post-emancipation that spanned over five centuries–from the middle of the fifteenth century to the dawn of the twentieth.
This research guide will provide students an introduction to the primary, secondary and reference material available on the study of the Atlantic African diaspora. It will also provide an introduction to the principal scholars, texts, schools, methodologies, and subjects of the field. It will finish with several considerations on the trajectory of the field of Atlantic African diaspora study.
February 19, 2008 at 1:45 am
What a great site! This must be THE online source for African diaspora scholars, particularly those studying the Atlantic African Diaspora during the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries!!