The African Diaspora in the United States

Abstract

The importance of the African Diaspora and the Yoruba in the Atlantic World has constituted major themes in the writings of several prominent scholars in recent years.

This chapter is a revised and greatly enhanced version of parts of several book chapters that I have written titled, “The Power of Words: Scoundrel, Values and Meaning in the Context of the Historiography of the African Diaspora,” in Beyond the Boundaries: Toyin Falola and the Art of Genre-Bending, ed. Nana Akua Amponsah (Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press, 2014), 135–152; “Rethinking the African Diaspora in the Context of Globalization: Building Economic Capacity for the 21st Century and Beyond,” in Ethnicities, Nationalities, and Cross-Cultural Representations in Africa and the African Diaspora, ed. Gloria Chuku (Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2015), 63-79; and “The Quest for Human and Civil Rights in Africa and the African Diaspora,” The Long Struggle: Discourses on Human and Civil Rights in Africa and the African Diaspora, eds. Adebayo Oyebade and Gashawbeza Bekele (Austin, TX: Pan African University Press, 2017), 1–20.