African Diaspora

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• SOURCE: Atlas Obscura
  11/17/2020
  

  How to Recreate Your Lost Family Recipes, According to Historians and Chefs

  Chefs and historians of food cultures are working to build public understanding of the history of immigration and the African diaspora through knowledge of cooking and eating practices.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/19/2020
  

  How Saidiya Hartman Retells the History of Black Life

  The literary scholar Saidiya Hartman's studies of the aftermath of slavery and the African diaspora point to the limits of archival records for understanding historical Black experience. Some historians question whether her methods fill archival gaps too creatively.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  9/13/2020
  

  Black Lives Matter But Slavery Isn’t Our Only Narrative

  by Aretha Phiri and Michelle M. Wright

  "Black folks are astonishingly diverse in their cultures, histories, languages, religions, so no single definition of Blackness is going to fit everyone. When we fail to consider this, we effectively leave many Black people out of the conversation."

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• SOURCE: Black Perspectives
  9/9/2020
  

  Black Women in Nineteenth-Century France: An Interview with Historian Robin Mitchell

  Robin Mitchell's book "Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France" examines how sexualized descriptions of Black women contributed to French racism.

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• SOURCE: Columbia Spectator
  2/25/19
  

  How 4 faculty helped create Columbia’s first African American and African Diaspora studies department

  After decades of activism surrounding the University’s lack of dedicated scholarship to issues of race and ethnicity, Columbia approved its first African American and African Diaspora studies department last fall.