Diaspora Studies Products

By Helen Kim

The exciting diasporic sounds of the London Asian urban music scene are a cross-section of the various genres of urban music that include bhangra "remix," R&B and hip hop styles, as well as dubstep and other "urban" sample-oriented electronic music. This book brings together a unique analysis…

Paperback – 2016-12-21 
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Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity

By Tunde Adeleke

This book revisits and analyzes three of the most accomplished twentieth century Black Diaspora activists: Malcolm X (1925–1965), Stokely Carmichael (1941–1998) and Walter Rodney (1942–1980). All three began their careers in the Diaspora and later turned toward Africa. This became the foundation…

Hardback – 2016-12-20 
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Routledge African Studies

Edited by Joanna Story, Iain Walker

Markers of identity define human groups: who belongs and who is excluded. These markers are often overt – language, material culture, patterns of behaviour – and are carefully nurtured between generations; other times they can be invisible, intangible, or unconscious. Such markers of identity also…

Hardback – 2016-12-15 
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Ethnic and Racial Studies

By Jerome C. Branche

This book studies the creative discourse of the modern African diaspora by analyzing poems, novels, essays, hip-hop and dub poetry in the Caribbean, England, Spain, and Colombia, and capturing diasporan movement through mutually intersecting axes of dislocation and relocation, and efforts at…

Paperback – 2016-12-10 
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Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora

By Elisabetta Iob

This book is a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the resettlement and the rehabilitation of Partition refugees in Pakistani Punjab between 1947 and 1962. It weaves a chronological and thematic plot into a single narrative, and focuses on the Punjabi refugee middle and upper-middle class.…

Hardback – 2016-12-01 
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Royal Asiatic Society Books

Edited by Carli Coetzee

This edited collection comprises an original and activist group of contributions on that much maligned figure, the Afropolitan. The contributors do not aim to define or fix the term anew; the reboot is, instead, the beginnings of an activist scholarly agenda in which ‘the Afropolitan’ is reimagined…

Hardback – 2016-11-25 
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Edited by Malcolm James, Helen Kim, Victoria Redclift

The chapters in this volume examine the racial and ethnic landscape of Britain in a contemporary era of neoliberalism and financial crisis. A key aspect of neoliberal thought is the belief that we live in a ‘post-racial’ society in which the problems of racism and xenophobia have been overcome.…

Paperback – 2016-10-31 
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Ethnic and Racial Studies

By Abdullahi Haji-Abdi

Critical Realism, Somalia and the Diaspora Community equips new researchers with a simplified knowledge of critical realism suitable to the degree of their comprehension. Moreover, it offers a step by step example of research using all levels of critical realism. This book resulted from the…

Paperback – 2016-10-31 
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Ontological Explorations (Routledge Critical Realism)

By Joy White

Youth unemployment in the UK remains around the one million mark, with many young people from impoverished backgrounds becoming and remaining NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training). However, the NEET categorisation covertly disguises and obscures the significance of the diverse range of…

Hardback – 2016-10-18 
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Routledge Advances in Sociology

Edited by Toyin Falola, Cacee Hoyer

Africans and their descendants have long been faced with abuse of their human rights, most frequently due to racism or racialized issues. Consequently, understanding shifting conceptualizations of race and identity is essential to understanding how people of color confronted these encounters.…

Hardback – 2016-09-19
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Routledge African Studies

Edited by Michael McEachrane

Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe challenges a view of Nordic societies as homogenously white, and as human rights champions that are so progressive that even the concept of race is deemed irrelevant to their societies. The book places African Diasporas, race and legacies…

Paperback – 2016-08-26
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Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora

Edited by Russell King, Maja Povrzanovic Frykman, Julie Vullnetari

The Southeast Europe and Black Sea region presents fertile terrain for examining recent international migration trends. The contributions to this book cover a range of examples, from Ukraine and Moldova in the north, to Greece and Albania in the south. By intersecting the three key concepts of…

Hardback – 2016-08-10
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