Word: diaspora
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Saturday's panel topics included the department's evolution, African-American music, African-American women, African-American art and literature, race in the 21st century, African-American religion, the Afro-Atlantic diaspora, the future of Afro-American Studies, and race and the economy...
...recent years, what Wambsgans calls "the big Deep Springs diaspora" has centered on the University of Chicago, Yale and Cornell...
...think I'm here because I define myself as a black artist," Williams said. "All artists who are part of the black diaspora are black artists--not all do black arts...
...South Asian from Trinidad traveling abroad, Naipaul is particularly aware of difficulties that accompany this diaspora. Consoling his mother over the growing incidence of affairs among Trinidad Hindus, for instance, Vido writes, "The reason is this: the old Hindus married their daughters off at an early age. We have grown modern--we decide to let them choose, but at the same time our Hindu prudery is struck by the grossness of a courtship in a Western way. We put our foot down. Result: clandestine intrigues. Marriage is always the solution...
...river and sea of his titles. The beginning of the book is restless, hopping from name to name and from event to event. He pulls us, splashing, along the surface of the years. But he soon slows and we sink deeper--into his thoughts about living in the Diaspora, a tension that will return again and again. He delves into long discussions of Reagan's actions in the Bitburg Affair and of French president Francois Mitterrand. His thoughts are fascinating. I have said that Wiesel's reflections are not emotionally intimate. This does not make them less emotionally powerful...