Search Results - "African and black diaspora"

Paradiplomacy and the role of subnational authorities in the implementation of diaspora policies. The case of decentralized cooperation between France and Mali by Soukouna, Sadio

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Plural strategies of accessing land among peri-urban squatters by Bhanye, Johannes, Dzingirai, Vupenyu

“…This paper discusses strategies utilized by migrants/squatters in accessing land for settlement and livelihoods in places where the state and the indigenes are…”
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The 'African gangs' narrative: associating Blackness with criminality and other anti-Black racist tropes in Australia by Majavu, Mandisi

“…This article explores and theorizes anti-Black racist discourses that shape the ways in which the Australian media and other mainstream Australian institutions…”
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Big-men, allies, and saviours: mechanisms for surviving rough neighbourhoods in Pretoria's Plastic View informal settlement by Nyamwanza, Owen, Dzingirai, Vupenyu

“…This paper explores relationships among Zimbabwean irregular migrants trying to survive a rough informal settlement neighbourhood in Pretoria, South Africa…”
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Affirming blackness in 'Post-racial' contexts: on race, colorism, and hybrid identities in Brazil by Khalema, Nene Ernest

“…Safran's theorization of diaspora focused on a 'myth of return', a conscious desire to return from banishment to a homeland or an identity. This paper extends…”
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Afro Love: counter-literacies in Brazilian natural hair communities by Goins, Marla R.

“…This study explores afro hair as a central component of transnational anti-Black and Black-empowering literacy construction. It argues that Black women in São…”
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Ziba Khanum of Yazd: an enslaved African woman in nineteenth-century Iran by Lee, Anthony A.

“…Ziba Khanum (d. 1932) was, an African woman, a slave in the city of Yazd in the second half of the nineteenth century. She bore her master a son who, in…”
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Attitudes towards Afro-Venezuelans in lyrics of gaita zuliana: 1965-1985 by Andrade, Gabriel

“…As with most Latin American nations, Venezuela has traditionally embraced the exceptionalist myth that it is a racial democracy. That does not mean racism is…”
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Questioning the practice of la sape: will the London movement survive? by Morsiani, Benedetta

“…This article explores the transformation of la sape, a well-established fashion and lifestyle subculture in Congolese diasporic culture, among the London…”
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Same color, different realities: analysis of Black experience in South Korea by Jatula, Victor, Goode, Taesha

“…Ethno-nationalism, state-imposed integration and economic slowdown fuelled by Covid-19 restrictions have hardened antiforeigner sentiments and impeded…”
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Deported before experiencing the good sides of migration: Ethiopians returning from Saudi Arabia by de Regt, Marina, Tafesse, Medareshaw

“…In the period November 2013-April 2014 more than 160,000 Ethiopians were deported from Saudi Arabia after a seven months amnesty period for undocumented…”
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Othering and disillusionment in Laila Lalami's The Other Americans by Edouihri, Aymane

“…The question of identity (re)constructions across different locations is central to diasporic literature. Voluntary or forced exile, diasporic characters…”
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Diasporic ambassadors: Black women, pageants, and building connections across the African diaspora in the late twentieth century by Joseph, Courtney Pierre

“…The 1965 Hart Cellar Act opened the US borders to African, Latin American, and Caribbean peoples in an unprecedented way. Yet, this migration is an extension…”
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Life in the post-return period: evidence from migrant women returnees in Wourgessa town, Ethiopia by Dessiye, Mesfin

“…This article examines the post-return life experiences of Ethiopian migrant women returnees from domestic work in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The returnees…”
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'No toques mi pelo' (don't touch my hair): decoding Afro-Cuban identity politics through hair by Mbilishaka, Afiya, Ray, Moriah, Hall, Jasmine, Wilson, Ingrid-Penelope

“…People across the African Diaspora have developed a complex socio-visual-language system of hair as a means of self-expression; however, the decades of…”
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'Chicago's Renaissance woman': the life, activism, and diasporic cultural feminism of Dr. Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs by Hagedorn, Olivia M.

“…This article analyzes the life of Dr. Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs, a teacher, writer, artist, and public historian who founded Chicago's DuSable Museum of…”
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Ceylon African Mānja performance: enactments of Black ways of being and Knowing in Sri Lanka by Jayawardene, Sureshi M.

“…Ceylon Africans are an Afrodiasporic community in Sri Lanka and are the descendants of enslaved Africans brought to the island from the 16th-20th centuries…”
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Haitian and Cuban immigrants in Miami, Florida: are they more similar than they are different? by John, Mauricia

“…There has been significant research done on the assimilation patterns of immigrants in the US, particularly immigrants of color. However, since fewer studies…”
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Black invisibility: reframing diasporic visual cultures and racial codes in Bahia by Henson, Bryce

“…This article discusses Black invisibility to examine Afro-diasporic visual cultures that are grounded in Black people's material conditions. As a conceptual…”
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Bikuda: hair, aesthetic, and bodily perspectives from women in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil by Means, Sheryl Felecia

“…The Steve Biko Cultural Institute (Biko) is one of various institutions that aim to educate civically active Afro-descendant youth in Salvador who hope to…”
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