Diasporic

Their heritage as Jews especially, the Diasporic experience of living between two worlds has given them a sharp critical edge and the ability to express the anxieties and foibles of contemporary culture.

Jewish Women in Comedy 2010

You can read the full story over at Diasporic which has more detailed events of the story.

Filmstalker: Tony Scott filming Chippendales biography 2009

The Bible and history have proved the Diasporic concept has been fundamental in developing sending and receiving nations alike.

African blessings 2007

Sundiata said: “We must speak of not one but many Diasporas, recognizing each creates its own history and each projects backwards as ‘the’ Diasporic experience.”

African blessings 2007

So instead, I will play here a lovely gem from 1968 that I discovered over on You Tube, featuring a young Miriam Makeba, aka "Mama Afrika" in her native South Africa: this vibrant songstress of international fame and a symbol of the resistant spirit against South African apartheid, as well as a Diasporic sister fighting in solidarity with all oppressed peoples who struggle for liberation.

Shout Out to "Mama Afrika" Anxious Black Woman 2008

As such, this book never moves beyond her African-American worldview to establish a global, African Diasporic worldsense borrowing a term from scholar Oyeronke Oyewumni.

Rediscovering Our Ancestors' Journey: A Review of Saidiya Hartman's Lose Your Mother Anxious Black Woman 2008

What I like about their collaboration, "Bandy Bandy" from Daulne's Ancestry in Progress CD, is the way that they have created an African Diasporic dialogue through their love of music.

Decolonizing Feminism: International Women's Day Anxious Black Woman 2008

Davies' biography provides an important glimpse into Jones's life, while offering stark contrasts with the FBI records, establishing her importance in feminist, communist, and black and Diasporic intellectual histories.

To the Left, To the Left (of Karl Marx): Claudia Jones Anxious Black Woman 2008

They also debated the broader context of Diasporic writing.

Archive 2006-09-01 2006

I don't know, but it's got to be read - 'Poor' African Writers Travelling: Home and Exile in Younger Nigerian Diasporic Writing.

Archive 2006-11-01 2006