Routes of Passage: Rethinking the African Diaspora

Ruth Simms Hamilton was a teacher and researcher at Michigan State University for 35 years, who won many awards for her work. She was Professor of Sociology and Urban Affairs, Director of the African Diaspora Research Project, and a core faculty member of the African Studies Center and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Michigan State University.

• Contents Introduction Rethinking the African Diaspora: Global Dynamics | Ruth Simms Hamilton The African Diaspora in the Northwestern Indian Ocean: Reconsideration of an Old Problem and New Directions for Research | Edward A. Alpers The Diaspora in Yemen | Tim Carmichael Historicizing the African Diaspora | Joseph E. Harris African American Studies in Libraries: Collection Development and Management Priorities | Howard Dodson Two Academic Programs in the African Diaspora: Afro-Brazilian Studies and U.S. Africana Studies | Milfred C. Fierce The Diaspora in Indo-Afro-Ibero-America | Jorge Silva Castillo African Diaspora Passages from the Middle East to East Asia | Michael C. Thornton Portrait of the Past: Black Servicemen in Asia, 1899–1952 | Michael C. Thornton Two Courtiers of African Descent in the Kingdom of Judah: Yehudi and Ebedmelech | John T. Greene Portrait of the Past: African Moslems in Yugoslavia | Michael C. Thornton The World Is All of One Piece: The African Diaspora and Transportation to Australia | Cassandra Pybus A Little-Known Chapter in African American and Russian Cooperation | Joy Gleason Carew A Perspective on African Diaspora: Cultural Workers and Communities in Russia | Michael C. Thornton Passages and Portraits of African Descent People in Germany: From Ancient Times to the 1960s | Ruth Simms Hamilton African Resistance to German Colonialism and Its Legacies, 1884–1913 | Ruth Simms Hamilton with Getahun Benti Reassessing Diaspora Connections and Consciousness: Global Africa and World War I | Ruth Simms Hamilton Brothers in Arms? African Soldiers in Interwar France | Dana S. Hale Increasing Resistance to Colonialism in Africa after the “Great War” | Ruth Simms Hamilton Orchestrating Race, Nation, and Gender: African Peacekeepers in Germany, 1919–1920 | Ruth Simms Hamilton Anti-Black Reigns of Terror in Great Britain and the Americas in 1919: Similarity and Simultaneity | Ruth Simms Hamilton Contributors