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| | African American Artists |
 | | African American World - Presents the broad range of the black experience in the United States, from the Harlem Renaissance to the ongoing debate over affirmative action. | | | All-African People's Revolutionary Party - In the tradition of the Black Power movement the party seeks the unity of all Africans throughout the world. | | | African American Voices - Collection of educational articles, with quotations from primary source documents, on the history and experience of slavery. |
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http://www.negroartist.com/GALLERIES.htm
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| | African-American Studies Videotape and Audiocassette: Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley |
| | This program traces the kidnapping of Africans, their sale as slaves in the "New World" and their escape to Spanish Florida and freedom. | | | Through his camera and many personal interviews, Cho reveals a rarely seen portrait of life in the inner city and takes a hard look at his own uncle's murder, telling how this crime affected not only his family, but the entire city. | | | Film concludes with a delegation of Gullah people traveling from the United States to Sierra Leone to trace the roots of their heritage. |
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http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/AfricanAmVid.html
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| | African Studies: African Diaspora |
| | This section of the HSP site is based on the 2001 project of the former Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies on African immigrant communities of Philadelphia (includes seven detailed oral history accounts of immigrants; plus a directory of organizations and businesses). | | | A progressive US-based, lobbying organization with global African political and cultural concerns. | | | This website offers an extensive list of historic sites, museums, and memorials, with contact information and links to home pages. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/diaspora.html
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| | The African Diaspora: History 477X |
| | J-Stor is an electronic journals archive that includes back issues of important African American titles such as Journal of Black Studies, Callaloo, Journal of Negro History, and Transition, as well a number of "mainstream" history journals such as American Historical Review and Journal of Modern History. | | | Interesting online journal includes scholarly articles and essays on the African diaspora in the UK and elsewhere. | | | Also includes citations for dissertations, book reviews, film and video reviews. |
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http://www.public.iastate.edu/~savega/diaspora.html
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| | African, African Diaspora video DVD Caribbean Black video kirikou |
| | is a wicked political satire about African dictators and Thomas Sankara, a revealing 26 minute documentary about the revolutionary African leader who wanted to give his country a new socio-political dimension. | | | African, African Diaspora video DVD Caribbean Black video kirikou | | | A powerful film portraying institutionalized racism and police brutality, Otomo provides a convincing look at the everyday world of refugees, who are continuously surrounded by tension and insecurity. |
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http://africandiasporavideo.com
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| | SFU Library - African Diaspora |
| | Allows keyword searching plus the abililty to find out who cited a particular journal article and who was cited in a particular journal article. | | | This scholarly collection includes critical information from a broad range of disciplines; use "Afro-Americans" as well as "Blacks" in "subject" search. | | | African American authors, 1745-1945 : a bio-bibliographical critical sourcebook. |
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http://www.lib.sfu.ca/researchhelp/subjectguides/diver/AfricanD/African_Diaspora.htm
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| | African diaspora museum set for Yerba Buena area |
| | "The goal of the museum is to connect people to the stories and experiences of the African diaspora, through exhibitions, presentations, workshops and other activities,'' said Patricia Johnson, the museum's executive director. | | | "I want this museum to provoke people to think, to entice them to think about relationships, to think about history, to think about how we got to be who we are,'' said Belva Davis, the San Francisco television journalist who is president of the board of the Museum of the African Diaspora. | | | One of the stories we will present is that all mankind started out in Africa,'' Johnson said. |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/12/01/DDG4H3CECS1.DTL
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| | Diaspora Bibliography: Representative UCB Holdings |
| | Diaspora and visual culture : representing Africans and Jews / edited | | | Inside Babylon: the Caribbean diaspora in Britain / | | | African diaspora / Atsuko Matsuoka and John Sorenson |
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http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Collections/Africana/diaspora.html
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| | Black Canadian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, some descendants of the freed American black slaves have mixed into the white Canadian community and have mostly lost their ethnic identity. | | | Some may refer to black Canadians as Afro-Canadian or African-Canadian, although this term is not as prevalent as African American in the United States. | | | Today's black Canadians are largely of Caribbean origin, some of African origin (especially, but not exclusively, from Somalia) and smaller numbers from Latin American countries, but a sizable number of black Canadians descended from freed American slaves can still be found in the province of Nova Scotia and parts of Southwestern Ontario. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Canadian
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| | African Dance in the Diaspora Bibliography [Cochran] |
| | We realized that even in remote Caribbean islands the African based religion are alive and well in strikingly similar form to the larger islands of Cuba and Jamaica. | | | This book also taught us some of the things that they are known for. | | | We found out about the background of the African peoples and their cultures. |
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http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Bibliography/African_Dance_19560.html
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| | Border Crossings: Diaspora |
| | Beth Hatefutsoth, the Nahum Goldman Museum of the Jewish Diaspora | | | Diaspora Jews, Romans, Others in The Greek Style Cities of the First Century Crimea | | | Belonging and diaspora: The Chinese and the Internet |
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http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/bordercrossings/diaspora.html
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| | CSR - Women in the African Diaspora |
| | The meeting during the third year consisted of a public conference on the same theme, where this same group of scholars presented the fruits of their research and benefited from outside commentary. | | | A gathering of junior and senior scholars who work in the area of religion, race, and gender in key parts of the African Diaspora met annually over the three years of this granting period. | | | We also sponsored a number of public events (lectures, symposia, and conferences) on topics concerned with the intersections among religion, women, and people of color in the Diaspora. |
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http://www.princeton.edu/~csrelig/program/prrg.html
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| | Welcome to the Department of African American & African Diaspora Studies! |
| | As a humanistic discipline in the democratic tradition, AAADS seeks to dispel the myths and expose the attitudes that perpetuate racism in American life. | | | AAADS introduces students to a wide range of current research and scholarly opinion on the history, culture, and social status of black Americans and their African heritage, as well as a breadth of topics on the African diaspora. | | | Toward this end, the department assumes the ongoing responsibility of creating materials and conducting seminal research that aids in the development and shaping of African American and African diaspora studies as a discipline. |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~afroamer
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| | African Studies Center African Studies & the Diaspora |
| | Newsreel's AFRICAN AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES imprint offers an extensive list of award-winning documentaries. | | | Principal geographical areas of concentration are the sub-Saharan African continent and the United States of America. | | | African and Afro-American Studies at Washington University, St. Louis is an interdisciplinary academic program, largely concentrated in the social sciences and the humanities. |
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http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/About_African/ww_afdis.html
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| | African American & Black Culture Community - AOL Black Voices |
| | Find out in this year's State of Black America report from the National Urban League. | | | How are African Americans faring when it comes to housing, education, prisons, jobs and money. | | | African American & Black Culture Community - AOL Black Voices |
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http://archive.blackvoices.com
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| | African Diaspora |
| | Ira Berlin, "Time, Space, and the Evolution of Afro-American Society on the British Mainland North America"American Historical Review 85, 1(1980) | | | Christianinty is an execellent example of how Africans merged their own beliefs with the existing religion, and produced a theology of their own. | | | Captured from their homeland and seperated from their tribes and families they were enslaved in a new world, where all familiar customs were absent. |
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http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Dept/HY/HY243Ruiz/Research/diaspora.html
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| | Tubman Centre |
| | Slaves’ Lawsuits for Freedom and the Rise of the Modern State" | | | Reparations for African People and People of African Descent | | | Lovejoy, Paul, "The African Diaspora: Revisionist Interpretations of Ethnicity, Culture and Religion under Slavery," Studies in the World History of Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation, II:1 (1997) |
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http://www.yorku.ca/nhp/index2.htm
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| | African Holocaust & African Diaspora |
| | Africans who had made the Middle Passage to the plantations of the New World did not return to their homeland to tell what happened to those people who suddenly disappeared. | | | Segal believes the "soul" of the Black Diaspora is "freedom. | | | You are here: African Holocaust and African Diaspora |
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http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/diaspora.htm
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| | Open Directory - Society: Ethnicity: African |
| | African Community International Center - An international membership organization focusing on Africa, her people, resources and relationship with the rest of the world. | | | ANPA - Association of Nigerian Physicians in the Americas - Non-profit organization of physicians and surgeons of Nigerian descent who are practicing in the United States and Canada. | | | Orlu Regional Assembly USA - Umbrella organization formed for the Orlu diaspora in the United States includes events, projects, discussion forum and membership details. |
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http://dmoz.org/Society/Ethnicity/African
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| | The Schomburg Legacy Exhibition--African Diaspora Section Intro |
| | As a consequence, the creation of the African diaspora -- the establishment of the presence of people of African descent throughout the world -- is one of the oldest and most continuous aspects of the global black experience. | | | The African presence in pre-Columbian Europe is well documented and studies such as those of Ivan Van Sertima (They Came Before Columbus) make it clear that Africans also ventured across the Atlantic. | | | The dispersion of African peoples from the African continent began centuries before the advent of the transatlantic slave trade. |
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http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/WEBEXHIB/legacy/imgins7.htm
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| | The Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora |
| | She is also an active scholar in African Diaspora Studies and International Black Women’s Studies at Florida International University where she is the Director of African-New World Studies. | | | This brilliant young mother of two beautiful daughters is noted for her frequent mind-stimulating lectures that are held throughout the year, and her annual national Black studies conferences. | | | You are invited to participate in a historic encyclopedic edit which, when completed, will be a milestone for the documentation of African Diaspora peoples. |
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http://www.oliverccox.com/encyclopedia_of_the_african_dias.htm
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| | THE AFRICAN DIASPORA RESEARCH PROJECT |
| | The African Diaspora Research Series is a multi-volume series to be published by Michigan State University Press beginning in 2003. | | | The project was also initiated in response to the need for dissemination of information about and within the diaspora. | | | This entire site © 2003 African Diaspora Research Project, Michigan State University. |
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http://www.ssc.msu.edu/~adrp/ADRP.html
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| | African Studies Center |
| | The AFRO-AMERICAN Almanac is an on-line presentation of the Africans in America, it includes: biographies. | | | The website provides resources on: conferences, organizations, newsletters, discussion groups, and music all have to do with AfrocCuban materials. | | | This gopher service for the Working Paper Archive (WPA), including all areas of Economics, is primarily devoted to giving interactive access to electronic working papers that have been posted. |
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http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Home_Page/mcgee.html
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| | Museum of the African Diaspora MetaFilter |
| | Wouldn't an African diaspora cover all people, who have now spread over the planet? | | | I hope that as their exhibit grows that they will begin to add details about what you might call the "second African Diaspora" - where today's well-educated (and less so) Africans willingly leave their own recently independent countries to seek fame, fortune, political asylum or even just economic survival, in foreign lands. | | | They obviously mean "negroid/black diaspora." Which beggars a few questions really, but whatever. |
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http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/47152
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| | NiiCa - African Diaspora |
| | It is commonly believed that Fulani are a mixture of Jewish and Negro bloodds. | | | Secret societies are characteristic of many West African Negroes, as for instance, the Ogboni and Oro among the. | | | Taboos are a common form of punishment for anti-social offences. |
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http://www.niica.on.ca/Diaspora/Origin.aspx
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| | Art of Africa and the African Diaspora, UM Libraries |
| | African Americans in the Visual Arts: A Historical Perspective | | | African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian Institution | | | Atlanta: Tinwood Books in association with the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library, 2000. |
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http://www.lib.umd.edu/ART/guides/africa.html
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| | Africa Reparations Movement |
| | ARM(UK) believes that people of African origin have an historic task to perform, that is to ensure that the truth of what happened to people of African origin is exposed and that reparations are made to African people. | | | You have entered a site that has been set up for those who are interested in Africa's people both on the continent and in the Diaspora. | | | The legal basis of the claim for Reparations |
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http://the.arc.co.uk/arm/home.html
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| | The Afrocentric Experience |
| | The Afrocentric Experience is dedicated to the empowerment and the enlightenment processes of all people through out the world especially those of African descent in Africa and the African diaspora. |
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| | CSU History African Diaspora Certificate Program |
| | Students are called upon to examine the Diaspora in its comparative perspective by focusing on the history of Africa, the United States and Latin America. | | | Mary Bivins, Ph.D (Michigan State University),Assistant Professor of African History, West Africa, Woman, Islam Culture & Ethnicity. | | | The African Diaspora constitutes one of the largest and most consequential migrations in the history of mankind. |
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http://www.csuohio.edu/history/diaspora.html
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| | African Diaspora Links |
| | West African Dahomean Vodoun (Mamaissii Danzi Hounon)--presents "a positive and realistic view of what the ancient Spiritual Tradition of what is popularly known as 'Voodoo' really is," and seeks to "provide to the West, a fundamental introduction to this ancient West African tradition. | | | Voudoun: The Slave Religions in America and the Diaspora | | | Note, too, that "we are student friendly" and welcome serious student inquiries "in understanding any aspect of our traditions" [email communication with Mamaissii D. See also I is a long memoried woman: 4. |
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http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/linksdiaspora.htm
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| | Program in African American Studies |
| | The Program in African American and Diaspora Studies (PAADS) offers an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and comparative study of the histories, literatures, music, visual cultures, and politics of people of African descent around the world. | | | The contributions of people of African descent are considerable human achievements in the areas of literature, philosophy, science, music, politics, and visual culture. | | | While developing students' analytical and critical thinking skills through the exploration of the Atlantic World, African American and Diaspora Studies as a discipline contributes to broader debates about race, gender, culture, class, politics, sexuality, and color. |
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http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/aframst
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| | MythSearch.com: The African Diaspora |
| | Format: 4, some of the images are irrelevant and unnecessary and the font is way too small to read in some places. | | | A collection of articles comparing African traditional religions to Christianity. | | | Presents "African Presence in the New World" and "Of Herbs and Energies", the holistic medical system of the Haitian people. |
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http://www.mythsearch.com/africa.html
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| | The African Diaspora Ancestral Commemoration Institute |
| | This resistance was not only a defiance of enslavement, but also represented the determination on the part of the Maroons to rebuild themselves into independent African communities in order to insure their future. | | | The Project includes a number of initiatives that document past and current Maroon communities which have | | | The program will also include the collective building of a community memorial alter dedicated to the maroonism of the African ancestors and to all of those Ancestors lost during the Maafa (the abomination of the Atlantic enslavement of African people). |
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| | SIT Study Abroad - Ghana: African Diaspora Studies |
| | As you explore Ghanaian culture, politics, economics, and society, you receive a thorough introduction to African views of Pan-Africanism and the global African Diaspora. | | | Millions of people of African descent originated in West Africa and migrated—voluntarily and involuntarily—to points around the globe. | | | Understanding the history and cultures of the African Diaspora begins with understanding the history and cultures of West Africa. |
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http://www.sit.edu/studyabroad/africa/ghanadia.html
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| | African Film - Films from Africa and the African diaspora |
| | The film will be released in its 84-minute version at the Quad Cinema in New York City on October 21. | | | All these films were shown during our annual African Diaspora Film Festival in New York. | | | This stunning documentary which aired in a shorter 52-minute version in 2004 on classy Euro webs -- including BBC, ZDF, Arte, IKON, and VRT – premiered in North America at the 12 th Annual African Diaspora Film Festival in New York City. |
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http://www.africanfilm.com
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| | ASWAD |
| | International Conference on the African Diaspora in Asia: Its Past, its Present and its differences and similarities with the Transatlantic Diaspora | | | The Gir National Park is the sanctuary where live the last asiatic lions. | | | Gujarat tour: Gori Pir Hill, KHAMBAT and GIR FOREST SIDDI VILLAGES A sacred shrine of the Gujarati Sidis who are Sufi devotees of an African agate trader, their patron saint Gori Pir or Baba Gor who was also known as Sidi Mubarak Nobi. |
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http://www.aswadiaspora.org/tadia05.html
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| | AFFORD |
| | Would you be happy for the British Government to remit one month of your income tax to your African country of origin? | | | Please read our Frequently Asked Questions to find out how we can help your work. | | | Over the next 3 years AFFORD will concentrate on supporting the African diaspora in the UK to contribute to wealth and job creation in Africa. |
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http://www.afford-uk.org
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| | African Diaspora Journal of Mathematics |
| | It offers a forum of high quality for mathematical research with some emphasis on the contributions of african mathematicians and the rich connections between african universities and those of other continents. | | | The ADJM is a mathematical journal dedicated to the publication of carefully refereed research articles of moderate length in all areas of mathematics. | | | Subscription and back issues orders should be addressed only to: |
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| | African Music Encyclopedia |
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| | The African Diaspora Foundation |
| | The African Diaspora Foundation simply works for peace. | | | ADF partners with Johannesbur's King-Luthuli Transformation Center (KLTC) and the South African Council of Churches to build a peace library and distance learning center. | | | Deborah Cox unites with ADF to be a spokesperson for global peace! |
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| | MoAD : The Museum of the African Diaspora |
| | View thousands of images contributed from visitors all over the world. | | | Looking Both Ways - Art of the Contemporary African Diaspora. | | | Panthermania - a rare archival Black Panther retrospective, presented in partnership with the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' current exhibit Black Panther Rank and File, at YBCA through July 2, 2006. |
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http://www.moadsf.org
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| | WELCOME TO THE AFRICAN DIASPORA WEBSITE |
| | The African Diaspora Studies website is dedicated to pursuing African diaspora studies initiatives. | | | We are located in South Florida, and among numerous other programs, our site currently focuses on: | | | African Diaspora Studies Consortium and Programs of Study |
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http://www.africandiasporastudies.com
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| | MelaNet®: The UnCut Black Experience |
| | ET.com is the platform for intellectual, economic and spiritual expression of peoples throughout the African Diaspora. | | | Browse AWG's African-inspired wedding invitations and order directly online. |
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| | ADFF |
| | South African Night After Party at the Bowery Bar with left to right John L'ecuyer (On the Verge of a Fever), Diarah N'Daw-Spech, Co-Director ADFF, Mireille Metellus, Actress (On the Verge of a Fever) and Tim Greene (Boy Called Twist) | | | AFRICAN DIASPORA FILM SERIES - JERSEY CITY - Jan 14 and 15, 2006 |
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http://www.nyadff.org
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| | Global Mappings: Northwestern University |
| | Thank you for visiting Global Mappings: A Political Atlas of the African Diaspora, a pilot project of the Institute for Diasporic Studies at Northwestern University, produced by the Multimedia Learning Center, and originally funded by the Ford Foundation | | | Originally launched in 2001, the initial investigative phase of pilot project has now ended. | | | GLOBAL MAPPINGS PILOT PROJECT COMPLETE, SITE NOW CLOSED |
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