Ruth Simms Hamilton

Ruth Simms Hamilton was a teacher and researcher at Michigan State University for 35 years, having won many awards for her work. Ruth taught courses on international inequality and development, comparative race relations, international migratio...

Routes of Passage: Rethinking the African Diaspora, Volume 1, Part 2

 Edited by

Ruth Simms Hamilton

Routes of Passage provides a conceptual, substantive, and empirical orientation to the study of African people worldwide. Routes of Passage addresses issues of geographical mobility and geosocial displacement; changing cultural, political, and economic relationships between Africa and its diaspora; interdiaspora relations; political and economic agency and social mobilization, including cultural production and psychocultural transformation; existence in hostile and oppressive political and territorial space; and confronting interconnected relations of social inequality, especially class, gender, nationality, and race.



CONTENTS
• The Black Question in Brazil: An Issue Denied,
Josildeth Gomes Consorte
• The Evolution of Black Identity in the Dominican Republic, Edward Paulino
• The Louvre Négresse: Interpretation and Illustration, Anne C. Meyering
• The Politics of Space, the Poetics of Place:
Africville, Africadia, and the African Diaspora in Canada, Raymond Familusi
• Reflections on the African Diaspora in Israel,
1997, Marcus Shapley
• Redefining a Collective Identity in the Struggle for State and National Identity in Ethiopia and Israel: The Case of Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel), Ruth Simms Hamilton with Getahun Benti
• Asphalt Stages: Pickup Basketball and the
Performance of Blackness, Michael Hanson
• The Marimba Still Sounds: Building Cultural
Pride and Political Resistance through Afro-Ecuadorian Music and Dance, Troy Peters
• Transnational Politics: A Note on Black Americans and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919,
Ruth Simms Hamilton
• The African Diaspora in the Twenty-first Century: The Past Is Prologue, Elliott P. Skinner



PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED

Routes of Passage, Volume 1 Part 1
978-0-87013-632-0, 0-87013-632-1, $34.95

Ruth Simms Hamilton African Diaspora series