The African Diaspora and the Disciplines

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Focusing on the problems and conflicts of doing African diaspora researchfrom various disciplinary perspectives, these essays situate, describe, and reflecton the current practice of diaspora scholarship. Tejumola Olaniyan, James H. Sweet, and the international group of contributors assembled here seek to enlargeunderstanding of how the diaspora is conceived and explore possibilities for thefuture of its study. With the aim of initiating interdisciplinary dialogue on thepractice of African diaspora studies, they emphasize learning from new perspectivesthat take advantage of intersections between disciplines. Ultimately, they advocatea fuller sense of what it means to study the African diaspora in a truly globalway.