These are the questions –
How is the African Diaspora significant to the social construction of race?
In what ways have the ideals around diasporic communities expanded? What qualifies a community to be consider a diaspora?
Specify the connection (s) that can be draw between those of African descent and the African Diaspora? How does the theory of Pan-Africanism support this logic? Or refute it?
How does W.E.B. DuBois explain the notion of double consciousness? How is it relevant to blackness and black identity?
* It has to be from 300-400 words and these are the links required to read and use for the questions*:
Cohen, Robin 2008. “Four Phases of Diaspora Studies”, Global Diasporas: An Introduction. New York: Routledge, pp. 1-20.
Safran, William. 1991 “Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return.” Diaspora. Vol. 1. Nº1. Spring: 83-99.
Herskovits, Melville, 1958 “The Significance of Africanisms” in The Myth of the Negro Past. Boston: Beacon Press, pp. 1-32.
Film: W.E.B. DuBois: A Biography in Four Voices
Part 1 (Links to an external site.)
Part 2 (Links to an external site.)
Part 3 (Links to an external site.)
Part 4
Videos
Black Panther and the Question of Black Atlantic Melancholy” Ato Quayson (2021)Links to an external site.
“Curl Talk: Identity in the African Diaspora” (2021)Links to an external site.