Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora is designed as a forum that confronts established academic boundaries in the study of social, cultural and political history of people of African descent while at the same time exploring the contours of knowledge production and understanding about Africa and its diaspora through rigorous and critical scrutiny.
The series marks a critical development in publishing theoretically and historically significant works on the lived experiences of people of African descent in all parts of the world. The series publishes original works of the highest quality from across the broad disciplinary fields of social sciences and humanities with a strong emphasis on theoretically informed and empirically grounded texts. Focus issues include the centrality of power and resistance, knowledge production, gendered cartographies, memory, race, class and other aspects of social identity in exploring different dimensions (cultural, geographic, political, social and psychological) through which people of the African descent have moved in the context of globalized and transnational spaces.
The editors welcome book proposals as well as manuscripts that address issues related to African and Black Diaspora. Single authored manuscripts as well as thematically coherent edited volumes will be considered. Inquiries should be directed to the Series Editors or the Routledge editor:
Fassil Demissie,
DePaul University, ([email protected])
Sandra Jackson,
DePaul University ([email protected])
Helena Hurd
Routledge Books ([email protected])
African Perspectives on South–South Migration
1st Edition
Edited
By Meron Zeleke, Lahra Smith
August 29, 2025
This book investigates the diverse and dynamic forms of migration within Africa. Centring themes of agency, resource flows, and transnational networks, the book examines the enduring appeal of the Global South as a place of origin, transit, and destination. Popular media, government pronouncements,...
Afroeuropeans: Identities, Racism, and Resistances
1st Edition
Edited
By Cristina Roldão, Raquel Lima, Pedro Varela, Otávio Raposo, Ana Raquel Matias
June 06, 2025
Afroeuropeans: Identities, Racism, and Resistances reflects on the tensions, ambiguities, and paradoxes of Blackness in Europe. The book addresses relations of domination and modes of racial exclusion, but also Afro-European interventions in the political, social, cultural, and artistic spheres, ...
Decolonial Sweden
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael McEachrane, Louis Faye
December 16, 2024
Decolonial Sweden exposes the social and political relevance of European colonialism to Sweden and its place in the world. It is a book that points to why and how Sweden is to be included in global decolonial struggles. Sweden is often displayed as an ethnoracially homogenous country without any ...
The Black Subaltern: An Intimate Witnessing
1st Edition
By Shauna Knox
May 27, 2024
In The Black Subaltern, Shauna Knox revolts against the construct of the decontextualized self, electing instead to foreground the complex and problematic lived experience of the Black subaltern. Knox offers an account in which Black humanity is flattened, desubstantialized, and lost in a state of ...
British-born Black African Youth and Educational Social Capital
1st Edition
By Alganesh Messele
May 31, 2023
This book examines the extent to which British-born Black African youth have access to opportunities and support during their pre-school, primary school and secondary school years. Through the voice of British-born Black African youth, this book explores why and how some racial-ethnic and ...
Pilgrimage Tourism of Diaspora Africans to Ghana
1st Edition
By Ann Reed
April 13, 2017
This book explores why and how Ghana has been cast as a pilgrimage destination for people of African descent, especially African Americans. It provides ethnographic insight into the transnational networks of people and ideas entangled in Ghana's pilgrimage tourism....
The Poetics and Politics of Diaspora: Transatlantic Musings
1st Edition
By Jerome C. Branche
December 14, 2016
This book studies the creative discourse of the modern African diaspora by analyzing poems, novels, essays, hip-hop and dub poetry in the Caribbean, England, Spain, and Colombia, and capturing diasporan movement through mutually intersecting axes of dislocation and relocation, and efforts at ...
Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael McEachrane
August 26, 2016
Afro-Nordic Landscapes: Equality and Race in Northern Europe challenges a view of Nordic societies as homogenously white, and as human rights champions that are so progressive that even the concept of race is deemed irrelevant to their societies. The book places African Diasporas, race and legacies...
Representing the Black Female Subject in Western Art
1st Edition
By Charmaine A. Nelson
April 23, 2015
This book offers the first concentrated examination of the representation of the black female subject in Western art through the lenses of race/color and sex/gender. Charmaine A. Nelson poses critical questions about the contexts of production, the problems of representation, the pathways of ...
Critical Perspectives on Afro-Latin American Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Antonio D. Tillis
September 20, 2013
After generations of being rendered virtually invisible by the US academy in critical anthologies and literary histories, writing by Latin Americans of African ancestry has become represented by a booming corpus of intellectual and critical investigation. This volume aims to provide an introduction...
Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora
1st Edition
Edited
By Regine O. Jackson
May 23, 2013
This book considers the full sweep of Haitian community invention and recreation in a multitude of national territories, with an eye toward the "place" factors that shape the everyday lives of Haitian migrants. Regine O. Jackson brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore how ...
Sex and Race in the Black Atlantic: Mulatto Devils and Multiracial Messiahs
1st Edition
By Daniel McNeil
May 16, 2011
This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a Black Atlantic. Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters – from the diaries, letters, novels and plays of femme fatales in Congo and the United States to the advertisements, ...