Africa and the Diaspora: Intersectionality and Interconnections

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This edited volume presents intersectionality in its various configurations and interconnections across the African continent and around the world as a concept. These chapters identify and discuss intersectionalities of identity and their interplay within precolonial, colonial, and neo-colonial constructs that develop unique and often conflicting interconnections. Scholars in this book address issues in cultural, feminist, Pan African, and postcolonial studies from interdisciplinary and traditional disciplines, including the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. While Intersectionality as a framework for race, gender, and class is often applied in African-American studies, there is a dearth of work in its application to Africa and the Diaspora. This book presents a diverse set of chapters that compare, contrast, and complicate identity constructions within Africa and the Diaspora utilizing the social sciences, the arts in film and fashion, and political economies to analyze and highlight often invisible distinctions of African identity and the resulting lived experiences. These chapters provide a discussion of intersectionality’s role in understanding Africa and the Diaspora and the intricate interconnections across its people, places, history, present, and future. Dedication Contents 1 Introduction: Framing Africa and the Diaspora Intersectionalities and Interconnections • Jamaine M. Abidogun 2 Revisiting the “Africa Is Sine Qua Non” Controversy: Stokely Carmichael and Walter Rodney • Tunde Adeleke 3 From African Natives to Native Americans: Charles Templeman Loram in North America • Richard Glotzer 4 Performing Mariage Mondial Through Social Media • Erin Kenny 5 The Black Panther, Bridging the Gaps That Separate Us?• Mary Mba 6 Obligation of Eldercare in the Context of Pentecostal Charismatic Churches • Darlingtina Esiaka 7 Behavioral Economics in North Kivu: Understanding the Complexity of Economic Rationality in Eastern Congo • Sterling Recker 8 One Nation Under Development? Comparing the Political Economy of Oil and Gas in Ghana and Nigeria • Ann Reed 9 To Be an African City Under an Oil Dictatorship: Conflictual Intersections Seen from Ethnicity and Race in Malabo and Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea) • Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré 10 Conclusion: Africa and the Diaspora: Findings in Intersectionalities and Interconnections • Sterling Recker Index