This groundbreaking collection addresses both new and familiar topics with fresh perspectives to produce original and thought-provoking scholarship on the diasporic histories of black peoples. Through
The essays in this collection originally were presented during the Diaspora Paradigms conference held in 2001 at Michigan State University. The 12 essays address new and familiar topics on the diaspor
?Beginning in the 1930s, Black Chicago experienced a cultural renaissance that lasted into the 1950s and rivaled the cultural outpouring in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. The contributors to thi