diasporic

I'm worried that I actually understand the term diasporic trans-nationalism

May 27th, 2004

The book explores how political, social, and cultural changes over the past thirty years have shaped urban, indigenous, and globalized "diasporic" art forms.

Contemporary African Art Since 1980: exclusive image gallery Boing Boing

Eileen and other authors have referred to this form as a "diasporic" one, and for me it has been instrumental in my ability to express my experience as a Mexican living between geographical, cultural, political and linguistic borders.

Archive 2007-10-01

Circumstance can be seen as the apotheosis of an Iranian diasporic imagination - more likely to reveal the desires, nostalgia, and dreams of its writer-director than expose dark secrets of the Orient for the pleasure of Western audiences.

Roya Rastegar: Circumstance and Dangerous Elicitations of Truth

As the apotheosis of the Iranian diasporic imagination,the film is more likely to reveal the desires and personal truths of its creator, cast, and crew than to expose dark secrets of the Orient for the pleasure of Western viewers.

Roya Rastegar: Circumstance and Dangerous Elicitations of Truth

As an Iranian-American in her mid-thirties, the kind of story Keshavarz tells is unique to a diasporic lens from a particular generation and very different from the perspective of someone raised only in Iran or only in America.

Roya Rastegar: Circumstance and Dangerous Elicitations of Truth

These diasporic interfaith relationships, such as our partnership with St. Benedict's Prep School, can augment building global leaders of tomorrow.

Anju Bhargava: The Consequences Of Shattering A Faith Glass Ceiling

Second, he managed to register practically every phase, emotional and ideological, of diasporic engagement with Zionism.

The Zealot

If, as friends and I have been discussing, he embodies newly diasporic Africans, his trip also represents a set of ongoing navigations that will continue to affect Africa in ongoing, unfolding futures.

Global Voices in English » Ghana: Global discussion of Obama’s visit to Ghana

Kenyan blogger Gukira contemplates the multiple affiliations and identities being demanded of President Obama in his visit to Africa as the US President and someone who “embodies newly diasporic Africans”:

Global Voices in English » Ghana: Global discussion of Obama’s visit to Ghana