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    1. Converging identities : Blackness in the modern African diaspora

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Adekunle,Julius (Editor) and Williams,Hettie V. (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2013
    Published:
    Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    334 p., A volume of 16 essays analyzing the issues of blackness and identity of the African Diaspora in global perspective. Focuses on the United States, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

    2. Migrations and creative expressions in Africa and the African diaspora

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Falola,Toyin (Editor), Afolabi,Niyi (Editor), and Adesanya,Aderonke A. (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    492 p., Includes Akintunde Akinyemi's "Transnational displacement and cultural continuity : the survival of Yorùbá religious poetry in the Americas," Niyi Afolabi's "Milton Nascimento's Missa dos Quilombos: musical invocation, race, and liberation," Christopher Adejumo's "Migration and slavery as paradigms in the aesthetic transformation of Yoruba art in the Americas," Ann Albuyeh's "'Africa speaks in me': how the diaspora shaped the languages of the Caribbean, then and now," Raphael Chijioke Njoku's "Symbols and meanings of Igbo masquerades and carnivals of the Black diaspora," and Ray A. Kea's "Religion, texts, and conversion in the eighteenth-century Danish West Indies : questions of self-identity and self-determination."

    3. The new African diaspora

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Okpewho,Isidore (Editor) and Nzegwu,Nkiru (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2009
    Published:
    Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    531 p., Traces the immigrants' progress from expatriation to arrival and covers the successes as well as problems they have encountered as they establish their lives in a new country. Includes Georges E. Fouron's "I, too, want to be a big man" : the making of a Haitian "boat people"; John A. Arthur's "Immigrants and the American system of justice: perspectives of African and Caribbean Blacks"; and Perry Mars' "The Guyana diaspora and homeland conflict resolution."