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African Diaspora (african + diaspora)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Humanities and Social Sciences40%
Education40%

Selected Abstracts

WOMEN AND RELIGION IN THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: KNOWLEDGE, POWER, AND PERFORMANCE edited by R. Marie Griffith and Barbara Dianne Savage

JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION, Issue 1 2009
STEPHEN D. GLAZIER
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Seeing History: Malaika Favorite's Furious Flower Poetry Quilt Painting and Pan-African Memory

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ART & DESIGN EDUCATION, Issue 2 2010
Maureen G. Shanahan
Malaika Favorite's Furious Flower Poetry Quilt (2004) is an acrylic painting that depicts 24 portraits of leading poets of the African Diaspora. Commissioned by Dr Joanne Gabbin, English professor and director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University, the painting is part of a larger programme of poetry education. The painting's interweaving of the portraits with fragments from the poets' writing functions to create an interactive visual-textual body of poets and poetry, a collection which has been taught at all levels of education from primary school to university. Its quilt structure pays homage to the historic role of women in preserving history and memory. The painting also serves to construct a pan-African identity and collective memory about slavery, African American history and empowerment. [source]

Cultural arts education as community development: An innovative model of healing and transformation

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR ADULT & CONTINUING EDUCATION, Issue 116 2007
Kwayera Archer-Cunningham
This chapter discusses a three-tiered process of collective experiences of various artistic and cultural forms that fosters the healing and transformation of individuals, families, and communities of the African Diaspora. [source]

Mitochondrial and Y Chromosome Diversity in the English-Speaking Caribbean

ANNALS OF HUMAN GENETICS, Issue 6 2007
J. Benn Torres
Summary The transatlantic slave trade lasted over three centuries and represents one of the largest forced migrations in human history. The biological repercussions are not well understood especially in African-Caribbean populations. This paper explores the effects of the forced migration, isolation, and admixture on genetic diversity using mitochondrial and Y chromosome markers for 501 individuals from Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Thomas, St. Vincent, and Trinidad. Genetic diversity and population genetic structure analyses of mitochondrial data and Y chromosome data indicate that there was no post-migration loss in genetic diversity in the African derived lineages. Genetic structure was observed between the islands for both genetic systems. This may be due to isolation, differences in the number and source of Africans imported, depopulation of indigenous populations, and/or differences in colonization history. Nearly 10% of the individuals belonged to a non-African mitochondrial haplogroup. In contrast, Y chromosome admixture estimates showed that there was nearly 30% European contribution to these Caribbean populations. This study sheds light on the history of Africans in the Americas as well as contributing to our understanding of the nature and extent of diversity within the African Diaspora. [source]

Gender, Sexuality, and African Diasporas

GENDER & HISTORY, Issue 3 2003
Sandra Gunning
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