The African diaspora today: Flows and motions

Radical History Review

Volumn , Issue 103, 2009, Pages 215-219

  Bogues, Anthony ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 64549154357     PISSN: 01636545     EISSN: 15341453     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/01636545-2008-042     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Brent Hayes Edwards, "The Uses of Diaspora," Social Text, no. 66 (2001): 51.
2. Stephanie Smallwood, Saltwater Slavery: A Middle Passage from Africa to American Diaspora (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 60.
3. See Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (London: Verso, 1993).
4. For a mapping of the ideas and movements of the African diaspora, see Édouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays, trans. J. Michael Dash (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996), 258-59.
5. Saskia Sassen, Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2006), 281.
6. Étienne Balibar, We, the People of Europe? Reflections on Transnational Citizenship, trans. James Swenson (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004), 41.
7. For a discussion of African migration, see Manta Tienda et al., African Migration and Urbanization: A Comparative Perspective (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2007).
8. For a discussion of the political ideas of the IASB, see Anthony Bogues, "The Notion and Rhythm of Freedom: The Anti-colonial Internationalism of the International African Service Bureau," in Twentieth-Century Internationalisms, ed. Karin Fisher and Susan Zimmermann (Budapest: Promedia, 2008), 129-46.
9. W. E. B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880 (1935;
10. New York: Atheneum, 1969).
11. See the last chapter of Frantz Fanon's Wretched of the Earth (New York: Grove, 1963). In Providence, Rhode Island, in March 2008, there was a demonstration to support immigrant rights. One of the posters for the demonstration proclaimed that "no person is a noncitizen." The implicit argument here is that rights are rights and should not be conferred or taken away by power. It is an important argument since it suggests that we need to think about rights differently to collapse the distinctions between being a subject and a citizen. I would argue that this has been a central thread in black radical political thought.
12. Stuart Hall, "Epilogue: Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life," in Culture, Politics, Race, and Diaspora: The Thought of Stuart Hall, ed. Brian Meeks (Kingston, Jamaica: Randle, 2007), 284.