... This chapter relates Senghor’s constitutional struggle to remake France as a federal republic to its flip side: his vision of African socialism as a way to redeem European socialism and ensure that the postimperial political form he imagined would ensure social justice for Africans. It argues...

... African socialism alienation humanism Marx religion ...

... In the countryside of central Cuba, African-inspired feasts conjoin West African, Kongo, and Catholic sources in a complex musical, theatrical, and affective praise style that prizes new shapes and new fates. This is an ethnographic encounter with the problem of mutually affirmed social...

... A small, working-class enclave tucked into south central Los Angeles County, Watts played a leading role in the life of the African American community in 1965, when African Americans took to the streets en masse in response to growing social and economic inequalities. In the years that followed...

... The introduction examines contemporary cultural formation in the African diaspora. It argues that through the transnational circulation of photographic technologies, African diasporic urban communities learn to see and assign value to the spectacle of being seen and photographed...

... Enlightenment. Although the concept of the "fetish" constructs the African as a primordial antitype to the ideals that an emergent European bourgeoisie wished to enforce in Europe, African religion is no less historical than European social theory, and European social theory is no less affected by the material...

.... An examination of how devotees’ perceptions of race have influenced the social history of the cult since its inception counters the temptation to regard “creolization” as a unifying harmonization, rather than a contested process. Scholars of African American religions are challenged to conduct more closely drawn...

... A massive influx of humanitarian actors in conjunction with a rise in armed violence in the Central African Republic has confronted Central Africans with their own poverty and others’ wealth in new ways. In attempting to explain Central Africans’ predicament, many have found evidence showing...

... The introduction traces the journeys that helped establish Afro-Atlantic speculation as a genre and modality that opens up possibilities for Black American social life in the post-1965 moment. Beginning with the collective mind-set that began to develop among Africans aboard ships during...

... This chapter challenges and expands upon how Euro-Americans conceive how a medical system “works.” Exploring the social and political context of medicine in a West African village—how indigenous medicine is embedded within social relations and organized by social groups, how disease...

... transformation, including the abolition of U.S. and South African apartheid, as well as liberal shifts in racial and colonial social texts, including the emergence of multiculturalism and state-ordained national antiracism? What useful articulations can take shape between current forms of radical intellectual...

... education, from its inception, was designed for the elites and, later, the white masses to inculcate conformity to social norms. Enslaved African Americans were largely denied learning, and US education for Native, African, and Asian Americans and Latinxs featured segregated, inferior schools...

... lineages of migrant mine workers. The chapter shows how Chinese labor regimes remake key features of the colonial mining industry such as the devaluation of “Black labor” ( heigong ), methods of discipline, and forms of social reproduction. The chapter also examines African workers’ practices of resistance...

... Mexican muralism made a significant and lasting impact on the art produced by African Americans associated with the New Negro movement of the interwar period. Like their Mexican counterparts, African-descended artists in the United States were seeking to create a class-conscious artistic vision...

... Focusing on the historical and ideological ties between two organizations—the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church and the Grand United Order of the Odd Fellows (GUOOF)—and Dominican liberals, the chapter shows that these links grew stronger in the post-1865 period as liberal positivists...

... Assocation (UGMA) with such a purpose in mind. They sought inspiration in the wisdom of shared historical experiences, which ranged from traditional West and West Central African cultures, through the social bonding required to survive the depredations of slavery, to communal values developed during...