On Conceptualising African Diasporas in Europe

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ID12955413
AuthorsMichael McEachrane (0000-0002-5175-7009, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume13
Issue1-2
Pages160-182
Publication date2021-06-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAfrican Diaspora (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1872-5457 • E-ISSN: 1872-5465
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/18725465-bja10014
OpenAlexW3177073069
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited51

The article argues that there are three senses of the term African diaspora – a continental, a cultural and a racial sense – which need to be distinguished from each other when conceptualising Black African diasporas in Europe. Although African Diaspora Studies is occupied with African diasporas in a racial sense, usually it has conceptualised these in terms of racial and cultural identities. This is also true of the past decades of African Diaspora Studies on Europe. This article makes an argument for a socio-political conceptualisation of Black African diasporas in Europe that includes, but goes beyond, matters of identity and culture

Aesthetics · African culture · African studies · Argument (complex analysis · Diaspora · Ethnology · Identity (music · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Race, History, and American Society

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