Diaspora Studies

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Hungry Subjects

Mapping Appetites in the African Cultural Landscape

By Njeri Githire
Subjects: African Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Diaspora Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Interrogating the plate, palate, and African literary imagination of food and eating

Across Continents

Writing Goans, Making Worlds

By R. Benedito Ferrão
Subjects: African Studies, Asian Studies, South Asia, Diaspora Studies, Literary Studies, 20th Century Literature
Series: African Perspectives

A dialogue between postcolonial literature and Afro-Asiatic studies through an analysis of Goan characters

Sideways Developments

Queer and Trans Aesthetics of Global Hong Kong

By Kai Hang Cheang
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, China, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Diaspora Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Global Queer Asias

A meditation on queer and trans persistence in global Hong Kong

Planetarity from Below

Decolonial Ecopoetics of Migration and Diaspora

By Emily Yu Zong
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Diaspora Studies, Asian Studies, China, American Studies, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies

The decolonial knowledges, imaginations, and praxes of migrant and refugee ecopoetics

Queer Throughlines

Spaces of Queer Activism in South Korea and the Korean Diaspora

By Ju Hui Judy Han
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, Asian American Studies, Diaspora Studies, Cultural Studies, Activism
Series: Global Queer Asias

Tracing contemporary transnational Korean LGBTQ+ activism

Queer Chimerica

A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child

By Shana Leodar Ye
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Sexuality Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, Asian American Studies, Diaspora Studies
Series: Global Queer Asias

Examining the intersections of queer theory and the rise of China to reveal how queerness is “produced”

Pragmatic Liberation and the Politics of Puerto Rican Diasporic Drama

By Jon D. Rossini
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Diaspora Studies, American Studies, Latinx Studies

Explores drama’s powerful capacity to model nuanced political action

Singing the Land

Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America

By Eli Sperling
Subjects: Foreign Language, Modern Hebrew, Jewish Studies, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Cultural Studies, Music, Ethnomusicology, Diaspora Studies

How song shaped American Zionism

Echoes of the Great Catastrophe

Re-Sounding Anatolian Greekness in Diaspora

By Panayotis League
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Diaspora Studies
Series: Musics in Motion

A multi-sited exploration of the musical legacy of the Anatolian Greek diaspora

Of Vagabonds and Fellow Travelers

African Diaspora Literary Culture and the Cultural Cold War

By Cedric Tolliver
Subjects: American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, African Studies, African American Studies, Diaspora Studies
Series: Class : Culture

Yields new insights by connecting Cold War counter-hegemonic writings in English and French by intellectuals of the African diaspora
 

Investing in the Homeland

Migration, Social Ties, and Foreign Firms

By Benjamin A. T. Graham
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Economics, Development, European Studies, Asian Studies, Diaspora Studies
Series: Michigan Studies in International Political Economy

Diaspora-affiliated firms that invest in the homeland are more successful than other foreign firms, but are equally socially irresponsible.

Queer Roots for the Diaspora

Ghosts in the Family Tree

By Jarrod Hayes
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, African American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Jewish Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Diaspora Studies

Uses comparative narratives to explore the dualism between marginalization and the desire for roots within a rooted identity

Black Cultural Traffic

Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture

Edited by Harry Justin Elam & Kennell Jackson
Subjects: Diaspora Studies, American Studies, Music, Theater and Performance, Race and Ethnicity, African American Studies

Fresh takes on key questions in black performance and black popular culture, by leading artists, academics, and critics

Other Germans

Black Germans and the Politics of Race, Gender, and Memory in the Third Reich

By Tina Marie Campt
Subjects: Race and Ethnicity, German Studies, History, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Diaspora Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Tells the story, through analysis and oral history, of a nearly forgotten minority under Hitler's regime

A Colored Man Round the World

By David Dorr
Edited by Malini Johar Schueller
Subjects: African American Studies, History, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Diaspora Studies

London, Paris, Constantinople, Athens, Cairo and Jerusalem in the 1850s—as seen through the eyes of a former slave

The History of Mary Prince, A West Indian Slave, Related by Herself

Revised Edition

Revised Edition

Edited by Moira Ferguson
Subjects: Caribbean Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, History, African American Studies, Diaspora Studies, American Studies

A new edition of the extraordinary autobiography of a black woman who escaped slavery in the West Indies

In the Castle of My Skin

By George Lamming
Subjects: African American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Diaspora Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks

An autobiographical novel of race and class by one of the leading Black writers of the 20th century

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