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African Diaspora Studies: Some International Dimensions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Joseph E. Harris
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When I was asked to share some of my reflections on the evolution of African Diaspora studies in the United States, I recalled that a colleague and I mused about the appearance of recent advertisements in scholarly journals for African Diaspora specialists. We also observed that several colleges and universities have courses with African Diaspora in the title. Indeed, Diaspora as a description of the dispersion and settlement of Africans abroad is fairly common in academic parlance today and increasingly so in popular discussions; however, such has not always been the case.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , 1996 , pp. 6 - 8
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1996 

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Joseph E. Harris, Distinguished Professor, Howard University, has written many articles and books, including Africans and Their History, Global Dimensions of the African Diaspora, and African-American Reactions to War in Ethiopia, 1936-41. Rand McNally has published his two maps on the diaspora: “Scope of the African Diaspora” and “Return Movements and Outreach Activities to 1945.”

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1. See the following book by a Sheedi (Afro-Pakistani): Mussafar, Muhammad Siddiq, Eye-Opening Accounts of Slavery and Freedom (Hyderabad, Pakistan: 1951)Google Scholar translated from Shendi by Dr. Mohammed Feroz at Howard University. Mussafar identified Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington as Sheedis whose examples should be emulated. He clearly shows that some African Pakistanis had an awareness of the international condition of black people and identified with them. Additional research is very much needed in this area.