Routes of Passage
Author | : Ruth Simms Hamilton |
Publisher | : MSU Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2006-11-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781628954593 |
ISBN-13 | : 1628954590 |
Rating | : 4/5 (590 Downloads) |
Download or read book Routes of Passage written by Ruth Simms Hamilton and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2006-11-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routes of Passage provides a conceptual, substantive, and empirical orientation to the study of African people worldwide. The book addresses issues of geographical mobility and geosocial displacement; changing culture, 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.