{"title":"The Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the Holy Land","authors":"S. Kaplan","doi":"10.1080/17528631.2017.1394619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2017.1394619","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Ethiopian Orthodox Tawahedo Church community has had a presence in the Holy Land for at least several hundred years. Throughout most of this period it was composed of a small ecclesiastical corps of monastic clergy who sought to protect the national church’s rights at various holy places in the region of Christianity’s birth. Only in the twentieth century, were these clergy joined by lay people. In this paper, I discuss the way the type of food served at church celebrations and the rhythm of fasts and feasts emphasize the shared national origins of the small diaspora. At the same time, where people sit when eating, and in what order they are served, expresses distinctions within the ranks of the clergy, between clergy and lay people, between men and women, and between Ethiopians and their former compatriots from Eritrea.","PeriodicalId":39013,"journal":{"name":"African and Black Diaspora","volume":"11 1","pages":"144 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17528631.2017.1394619","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48685873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Slavery food, soul food, salvation food: veganism and identity in the African Hebrew Israelite Community","authors":"N. Avieli, F. Markowitz","doi":"10.1080/17528631.2017.1394612","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2017.1394612","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper reviews the transformation of meaning of food items central to African American fare from symbols of slavery to means of salvation as the African Hebrew Israelite Community (AHIC) live out their Biblically inspired lifestyle and perfect the vegan diet at its core. Although originating in Chicago in the late 1960s, for over 40 years the institutional and residential base of this transnational millenarian community has been in the Israeli desert town of Dimona. Based on long-term ethnographic acquaintance with their foodways in Israel and in the US, our analysis follows the AHIC’s eclectic incorporation of circulating religious, political, and scientific theories into their Bible-based cosmological-nutritional tenets of regenerative health and spiritual salvation. We argue that their ‘Edenic Diet’ reacts to the traumatic history of African Americans as slaves and as a discriminated against minority in the US, by serving as a means in their struggle for place and acceptance in modern Israel and an active component in their social and spiritual plans for the future.","PeriodicalId":39013,"journal":{"name":"African and Black Diaspora","volume":"11 1","pages":"205 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17528631.2017.1394612","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48213388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stuart Hall on television","authors":"Robert E. Waters","doi":"10.1080/17528631.2018.1465254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2018.1465254","url":null,"abstract":"Stuart Hall was a public intellectual of the television age. Famously, he was a critic of television as a mass-communication medium. Like his sometime-mentor Raymond Williams, he was particularly a...","PeriodicalId":39013,"journal":{"name":"African and Black Diaspora","volume":"11 1","pages":"315 - 317"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17528631.2018.1465254","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44923000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The earth, the city and the hidden narrative of race","authors":"Nivi Manchanda","doi":"10.1080/17528631.2018.1464409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2018.1464409","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39013,"journal":{"name":"African and Black Diaspora","volume":"11 1","pages":"318 - 319"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17528631.2018.1464409","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44634924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stuart Hall and Jamaica","authors":"D. Austin-Broos","doi":"10.1080/17528631.2018.1459423","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2018.1459423","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Though Stuart Hall left Jamaica as a young man in 1951, reflections on his birthplace and its people’s diaspora significantly shaped the method that would become a cultural studies. This essay examines the nature of this influence as evidenced in some of Hall’s early and much later writing.","PeriodicalId":39013,"journal":{"name":"African and Black Diaspora","volume":"11 1","pages":"309 - 314"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17528631.2018.1459423","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46313739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Decoding the diaspora of Stuart Hall, historicity, performativity, and performance of a concept","authors":"C. Chivallon","doi":"10.1080/17528631.2018.1451592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2018.1451592","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyzes the ‘diaspora of Stuart Hall’ using concepts formulated by the sociologist himself. Through the model of ‘encoding, decoding’, it explores the meanings of the Caribbean diasporic formations and the theoretical positioning of Stuart Hall. The first part adopts a comparative approach on the usages of diaspora within the French and British academic circles, relying on two exemplary texts to demonstrate the hegemony of discursive norms prevalent in each of these spheres. The ‘diaspora of Stuart Hall’ seems to depend on the historicity of codes that witnessed the shift in the post-modern paradigm. The second part is on the margins from which Stuart Hall reconfigured this shift with an ‘articulation’ of his positioning to academic normativity. These margins also bring to light his critical theoretical posture vis-à-vis postmodernism, as well as the unusual expression of his personal motivation that led to the adoption of discursive approach of diaspora.","PeriodicalId":39013,"journal":{"name":"African and Black Diaspora","volume":"11 1","pages":"279 - 292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17528631.2018.1451592","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47749765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Existentialists abroad: West Indian students and racial identity in British universities","authors":"James G. Cantres","doi":"10.1080/17528631.2018.1452529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2018.1452529","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper considers the role of racialization in the experiences of West Indians in British universities after the Second World War. In particular, Stuart Hall’s reflections highlighted the complexities of national, island-based, and imperial identities across the British empire. This chapter complicates notions of belonging and various identities available to Hall in his earlier years – Jamaican, West Indian, and British. The notion of racialized existentialism was central to students who considered the problematics of their existence through the racial lens. Hall’s argument for incomplete ‘West Indian-ness’ reflects the dynamic nature of identity. The thousands of West Indians arriving in Britain in the 1950s found themselves in a foreign land and negotiating in-between identities. Racialization shaped the intellectual and social consciousness of migrant students. This work investigates and analyses the fluidity of student identifications and argues that racialization in both the Caribbean colonies and the metropole was the determinant factor in West Indian/non-white self-conceptualizations.","PeriodicalId":39013,"journal":{"name":"African and Black Diaspora","volume":"11 1","pages":"263 - 278"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17528631.2018.1452529","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41621235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stuart Hall: diasporic Caribbeanness and discourses of ethnocultural belonging","authors":"H. A. Murdoch","doi":"10.1080/17528631.2018.1452528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2018.1452528","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Hall’s analyses merge the intersecting fields of Black Britishness, diaspora studies, Caribbean studies, postcolonialism, and cultural studies, centering on the ways in which new arrivants and their descendants came to represent their experiences of displacement, exclusion, and cultural duality. The complex modernities of ethnicity, nationality, and belonging outlined by Hall rewrite traditional perspectives on those categories. Hall inscribes the foundational framework of the Caribbean as the locus classicus of diaspora, such that this double diasporization of the Caribbean population engenders an analytical and discursive interrogation of identity and its corollaries that leads to a critical rereading of existing models of nation and belonging. In outlining and defining a new Caribbean re-diasporization whose amorphous geographical boundaries locate its subjects in an explicitly transnational and transformative space of change and renewal, Hall draws on Caribbean communities both at home and abroad to rewrite the boundaries of diaspora as a concept.","PeriodicalId":39013,"journal":{"name":"African and Black Diaspora","volume":"11 1","pages":"232 - 246"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17528631.2018.1452528","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49438409","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Creation of an exportable culture: a cosmopolitan West Indian case","authors":"Maica Gugolati","doi":"10.1080/17528631.2018.1451597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2018.1451597","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper describes a recent cultural plan debated by members of the West Indian diaspora in Canada which sought to promote carnival as a multicultural expression of pan-Caribbean identity at the Hong Kong New Year International Festival, China. It deconstructs a cultural plan which did not succeed in its realization. As the Canadian West Indian carnival has its stylistic origin in the Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago, this proposition combines three different geographical areas and the related diasporas’ displacements under the notion of a local and global cultural promotion. In the article, I discuss the modes of creation and enactment of a diasporic patrimony as a culture to be presented in answer to foreign expectations of spectacle. The analysis approaches diasporic Canadian reflections about displacement, marginalization, and matters of cultural belonging, alongside economic dependencies, reflections that aim to gain visibility and international recognition through the production of an ‘ethnic spectacle’.","PeriodicalId":39013,"journal":{"name":"African and Black Diaspora","volume":"11 1","pages":"247 - 262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17528631.2018.1451597","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42953923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethiopian returnee women from Arab countries: challenges of successful reintegration","authors":"A. Fentaw","doi":"10.1080/17528631.2017.1343879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2017.1343879","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores the Ethiopian female migrant’s change, sustainability of gains, and problems of adjustment and reintegration upon return from the Middle East. Data was gathered from 87 returnees. The income they earn is contributed to their households. However, remittance management and saving strategies were ineffective to bring remarkable changes. Much of the remittance sent home was spent on basic needs. Savings at home and in the Middle East were insignificant. Employment and involvement in investments in the post-return period were limited, and most were leading lives either similar to before or lower level than prior to their departure. Using a methodological classification ‘success’ or ‘failure’, one-third of them achieved relative success. Efforts should be made to develop pre-migration awareness via media such as telecom alerting radios, televisions, and posters. Interventions in skills training and counseling should also be the norm.","PeriodicalId":39013,"journal":{"name":"African and Black Diaspora","volume":"11 1","pages":"33 - 50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17528631.2017.1343879","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44771170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}