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Article: The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities. (Book Reviews).
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- February 1, 2002
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The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities. Edited by Isidore Okpewho, Carole Boyce Davies, and Ali A. Mazrui. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c. 1999. Pp. xxviii, 566. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 0-253-21494-7; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 0-253-33425-X.)
Indiana University Press can be counted on for collections concerning the state of the field in African diaspora scholarship. A good deal of work has filled the years since IUP gave us Africanisms in American Culture (Joseph E. Holloway, ed.; Bloomington, 1990), and now the press has rolled out, simultaneously, two large collections dedicated to research on Africans and their ...