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 The Black Question in Brazil: An Issue Denied | Josildeth Gomes Consorte The Evolution of Black Identity in the Dominican Republic | Edward Paulino The Louvre Négresse: Interpretation and Illustration | Anne C. Meyering The Politics of Space, the Poetics of Place: Africville, Africadia, and the African Diaspora in Canada | Raymond Familusi Reflections on the African Diaspora in Israel, 1997 | Mark Shapley Redefining a Collective Identity in the Struggle for State and National Identity in Ethiopia and Israel: The Case of Ethiopian Jews (Beta Israel) | Ruth Simms Hamilton with Getahun Benti Asphalt Stages: Pickup Basketball and the Performance of Blackness | Michael Hanson The Marimba Still Sounds: Building Cultural Pride and Political Resistance through Afro-Ecuadorian Music and Dance | Troy Peters Transnational Politics: A Note on Black Americans and the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 | Ruth Simms Hamilton The African Diaspora in the Twenty-first Century: The Past Is Prologue | Elliott P. Skinner Contributors