Acknowledgements
Introduction
FRANKLIN W. KNIGHT AND RUTH IYOB
Reflections on African Diasporas in the Mediterranean World
RUTH IYOB
Diaspora and Empire: The Case of the Armenians in Pre-Revolutionary Russia
TAMARA GANJALYAN
The Africanization of Amerindians in the Greater Caribbean: The Wayuu and Miskito, Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries
CHRISTIAN CWIK
African “Nations” as Diasporic Institution-Building in the Iberian Atlantic
JANE LANDERS
The Chinese on the US–Mexico Borderlands: Strategic Transnationalism during the Exclusion Era, 1882–1940
EVELYN HU-DeHART
Caribbean Identities, Dance Constructions and “Crossroading”
YVONNE DANIEL
“The Spear Is Black with a Pure Gold Point”: Articulations of “Blackness” in Toronto during the 1970s
MICHELE A. JOHNSON
When Diasporas Meet: Black Solidarity and Inter-Ethnic Intersections in the United States of America
TOMMY L. LOTT
The Perception of Madness: Escapes and Flights of Fancies in Claude McKay’s Banana Bottom
JARRETT HUGH BROWN
The Caribbean Diaspora and Black Internationalism
WINSTON JAMES
Black Power in the African Diaspora
QUITO SWAN
Index
Contributors