1st Edition
African Diaspora and the Metropolis Reading the African, African American and Caribbean Experience
1. African Diaspora and the Metropolis: An Introduction Fassil Demissie, DePaul University, USA
2. Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners and the Structure of Black Metropolitan Life Mpalive-Hangson Msiska, Birkbeck College, University of London , UK
3. Richard Wright and African francophone Intellectuals: A reassessment of the 1956 Congress of Black Writers in Paris Babacar M’baye, Kent State University, USA
4. American Philanthropy and African Education: African Students in the Metropolis in the 1960s Zine Magubane, Boston College, USA
5. "In My Senegalese Quality and as a Compatriot": Senegalese Students in the Metropole and the language of Affinity 1880-1890. Kelly Duke Bryant, John Hopkins University, USA
6. Paradox of Diaspora, Global Identity and Human Rights: The Deportation of Nigerians in Ireland Elisa Joy White, University of Hawaii, USA
7. Pulling the Coat: Postcolonial Performance in Black British Women’s drama Kinka Batra, Texas Tech University, USA
8. From Mirage to Image: Africa on Film in the Metropolis (1955-1975). Dominic Thomas, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Biography
Fassil Demissie is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Policy, DePaul University. He has previously edited Postcolonial African Cities and has served as co-editor of African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, both published by Routledge. He co-edited The Black Body, Imagining, Writing and (Re)Reading (University of South Africa Press). His new current project is Colonial Architecture and Urbanism in Africa: Intertwined and Contested Histories (forthcoming, Ashgate).
