Patrick Manning refuses to divide the African diaspora into the
experiences of separate regions and nations. Instead, he follows
the multiple routes that brought Africans and people of African
descent into contact with one another and with Europe, Asia, and
the Americas. In weaving these stories together, Manning shows how
the waters of the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea, and the
Indian Ocean fueled dynamic interactions among black communities
and cultures and how these patterns resembled those of a number of
connected diasporas concurrently taking shaping across the
globe.
Manning begins in 1400 and traces five central themes: the
connections that enabled Africans to mutually identify and hold
together as a global community; discourses on race; changes in
economic circumstance; the character of family life; and the
evolution of popular culture. His approach reveals links among
seemingly disparate worlds. In the mid-nineteenth century, for
example, slavery came under attack in North America, South America,
southern Africa, West Africa, the Ottoman Empire, and India, with
former slaves rising to positions of political prominence. Yet at
the beginning of the twentieth century, the near-elimination of
slavery brought new forms of discrimination that removed almost all
blacks from government for half a century.
Manning underscores the profound influence that the African
diaspora had on world history, demonstrating the inextricable link
between black migration and the rise of modernity, especially in
regards to the processes of industrialization and urbanization. A
remarkably inclusive and far-reaching work, "The African Diaspora"
proves that the advent of modernity cannot be imaginatively or
comprehensively engaged without taking the African peoples and the
African continent as a whole into account.
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