Moving in Circles: African and Black History in the Atlantic World

The article examines the development of African diaspora history during the last fifty years. It outlines the move from a focus on African survivals to a focus on deep rooted cultural principles and back again to a revived interest in concrete cultural transfers from Africa to the Americas. This cir...

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Autor principal:	Gunvor Simonsen
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Lenguaje:	EN FR PT
Publicado:	Centre de Recherches sur les Mondes Américains 2008
Materias:	Early Modern World Africa African heritage creolisation Atlantic World Historiography Anthropology GN1-890 Latin America. Spanish America F1201-3799
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:b5ecf0736a5047ec973409eab63685da2021-12-02T10:27:20ZMoving in Circles: African and Black History in the Atlantic World1626-025210.4000/nuevomundo.42303https://doaj.org/article/b5ecf0736a5047ec973409eab63685da2008-09-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/42303https://doaj.org/toc/1626-0252The article examines the development of African diaspora history during the last fifty years. It outlines the move from a focus on African survivals to a focus on deep rooted cultural principles and back again to a revived interest in concrete cultural transfers from Africa to the Americas. This circular movement can be explained by a combination of elements characterizing African Atlantic and black Atlantic history. Among them is a lack of attention to questions of periodisation and change. Likewise, it has proven difficult to conceptualize Africa and America at one and the same time as characterized by cultural diversity and variation. Moreover, the field has been haunted by a tendency of moving to easily from descriptive evidence to conclusions about African identity in the Americas. A promising way to overcome these problems, it is suggested, is to develop research that focuses on single individuals and their Atlantic trajectories.Gunvor SimonsenCentre de Recherches sur les Mondes AméricainsarticleEarly Modern WorldAfricaAfrican heritagecreolisationAtlantic WorldHistoriographyAnthropologyGN1-890Latin America. Spanish AmericaF1201-3799ENFRPTNuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos (2008)
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description	The article examines the development of African diaspora history during the last fifty years. It outlines the move from a focus on African survivals to a focus on deep rooted cultural principles and back again to a revived interest in concrete cultural transfers from Africa to the Americas. This circular movement can be explained by a combination of elements characterizing African Atlantic and black Atlantic history. Among them is a lack of attention to questions of periodisation and change. Likewise, it has proven difficult to conceptualize Africa and America at one and the same time as characterized by cultural diversity and variation. Moreover, the field has been haunted by a tendency of moving to easily from descriptive evidence to conclusions about African identity in the Americas. A promising way to overcome these problems, it is suggested, is to develop research that focuses on single individuals and their Atlantic trajectories.
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title	Moving in Circles: African and Black History in the Atlantic World
title_short	Moving in Circles: African and Black History in the Atlantic World
title_full	Moving in Circles: African and Black History in the Atlantic World
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title_full_unstemmed	Moving in Circles: African and Black History in the Atlantic World
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Moving in Circles: African and Black History in the Atlantic World

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