Global Africans: Race, Ethnicity and Shifting Identities

"Black," "African," "African descendant" and "of African heritage," are just some of the ways Africans and Africans in the diaspora (both old and new) describe themselves. This volume examines concepts of race, ethnicity, and identity as they are ascribed to people of colour around the world, examining different case studies of how the process of identity formation occurred and is changing.

Contributors to this volume, selected from a wide range of academic and cultural backgrounds, explore...