Cape Verdean Diasporic Identity Formation

The concept of the African diaspora has its intellectual roots in traditional Pan-Africanist activities conducted in the U.S., the U.K. and in the Caribbean during the 19thcentury. Since that time, theories of the African diaspora include both support and criticism of the idea of Africa as the prima...

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1. Verfasser:	Gina Sánchez Gibau
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	African American culture African American studies African culture African diaspora African studies American studies Anthropology Behavioral sciences Communities Community identity Cultural identity Diasporas Ethnic identity Ethnicity Ethnography Ethnology Group identity Human geography Human migration Human societies Imagined communities Political identity Political migration Psychology Social groups Social psychology Social sciences Sociology
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Zusammenfassung:	The concept of the African diaspora has its intellectual roots in traditional Pan-Africanist activities conducted in the U.S., the U.K. and in the Caribbean during the 19thcentury. Since that time, theories of the African diaspora include both support and criticism of the idea of Africa as the primary site of identity formation (Appiah 1992; Drake 1982; Gilroy 1993; Gordon 1998; Padmore 1956). The evolution of the literature ranges from past conceptualisations of the African diaspora as a conglomerate with traceable ties to Africa, to more recent attempts at de-essentializing this connection in order to analyze and emphasise the African