Carole Boyce Davies

The African diaspora : African origins and New World identities

Introduction by Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, and Ali Mazrui The Diaspora: Orientations and Determinations Michael J. C. Echeruo, An African Diaspora: The Ontological Project Maureen Warner-Lewis, Cultural Reconfigurations in the African Caribbean Elliott P. Skinner, The Restoration of African Identity for a New Millenium Addressing the Constraints Joseph E. Inikori, Slaves or Serfs?: A Comparative Study of Slavery and Serfdom in Europe and Africa Richard Price, Modernity, Memory, Martinique Peter P. Ekeh, Kinship and State in African and African American Histories Jack Blocker, Wages of Migration: Jobs and Homeownership Among Black and White Workers in Muncie, Indiana, 1920 Ira K. Blake, The Significance of Cognitive-Linguistic Orientation for Academic Well Being in African American Children Sharon Aneta Bryant, The Relationship of Place of Birth and Health Status Race, Gender, and Image Celia M. Azevedo, Images of Africa and the Haiti Revolution in American and Brazilian Abolitionism Kimberly Welch, Our Hunger is Our Song: The Politics of Race in Cuba, 1900-1920 Antonio Benitez-Rojo, The Role of Music in the Emergence of Afro-Cuban Culture Sally Price, The Centrality of Margins: Art, Gender and African American Creativity Eliana G. Ramos Bennett, Gabriela Cravo e Canela: Jorge Amado and the Myth of the Sexual Mulatta in Brazilian Culture Patience Elabor-Idemudia, Gender and the New African Diaspora: African Immigrant Women in the Canadian Labor Force Sandra L. Richards, Horned Ancestral Masks, Shakespearean Actor Boys, and Scotch-Inspired Set Girls: Social Relations in Nineteenth-Century Jamaican Jonkonnu Creativity, Spirituality, and Identity Oyekan Owomoyela, From Folklore to Literature: The Route from Roots in the African World Jean Rahier, Blackness as a Process of Creolization: The Afro-Esmeraldian Decimas (Ecuador) Omoniyi Afolabi, The (T)Error of Invisibility: Ellison and Cruz e Souza Adetayo Alabi, Recover, Not Discover: Africa in Walcotts Dream on Monkey Mountain and Philips Looking for Livingstone Ali A. Mazrui, Islam and the African Diaspora: The Impact of Islamigration Pierre Damien-Mvuyekure, From Legba to Papa Labas: New World Metaphysical Self/Refashioning in Ishmael ReedOs Mumbo Jumbo Robert Elliott Fox, Diasporacentricism and Black Aural Texts David Evans, The Reinterpretation of African Musical Instruments in the United States Nkiru Nzegwu, The Concept of Modernity in Contemporary African Art LeGrace Benson, Habits of Attention: Persistence of Lan Ginee in Haiti Andrea Frohne, Representing Jean-Michel Basquiat Charles Martin, Optic Black: Implied Texts and the Colors of Photography Keith Q. Warner, Caribbean Cinema, or Cinema in the Caribbean? Reconnecting with Africa Laura J. Pires-Hester, The Emergence of Bilateral Diaspora Ethnicity Among Cape Verdean-Americans Alvin B. Tillery, Jr., Black Americans and the Creation of Americas Africa Policies: The De-Racialization of Pan-African Politics Joseph McLaren, Alice Walker and the Legacy of African American Discourse on Africa Joyce Ann Joyce, African-Centered Womanism: Connecting Africa to the Diaspora

First Ladies/First Wives, First Women Presidents: Sexuality, Leadership and Power in the African Diaspora

The idea or presence of a Black First Lady does not originate with Michelle Obama. During her last visit to Africa, Michelle Obama was photographed with other African first ladies at the African First Ladies Summit. While first ladies, though often-powerful women themselves, access power through marriage to a man who becomes president or prime minister, there is a growing body of women writing of their own experiences of engagement with power, as first woman presidents or prime ministers themselves. In this chapter, Dr. Carole Boyce Davies addresses issues of leadership in two different arenas, the first wife pathway to leadership, the rise of women as presidents themselves. It also examines issues of sexuality in the construction of both versions of Black women’s political leadership.

Mulheres caribenhas escrevem a migração e a diáspora

This paper discusses the work of Caribbean women writers produced both in the Caribbean nation-states and in the countries they migrated to. In identifying some of the major concerns presented in the narratives, it seeks to delineate their experiences as a gendered historical document which helps to understand more clearly the multifaceted movements of the Caribbean diaspora