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])
Africa and America's Historically Black Colleges and Universities: From Shared History to New Opportunities
1st Edition
By Kelisha B. Graves, Noran L. Moffett
May 05, 2026
This book focuses on the history and prospects of the strategic alliances between African nations and America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Drawing on extensive archival and original research, the book fills critical gaps and provides a compelling, data-driven case for ...
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 ...
Locating African European Studies: Interventions, Intersections, Conversations
1st Edition
Edited
By Felipe Espinoza Garrido, Caroline Koegler, Deborah Nyangulu, Mark U Stein
June 30, 2021
Drawing on a rich lineage of anti-discriminatory scholarship, art, and activism, Locating African European Studies engages with contemporary and historical African European formations, positionalities, politics, and cultural productions in Europe. Locating African European Studies reflects on the ...
Race and Afro-Brazilian Agency in Brazil
1st Edition
By Tshombe Miles
March 31, 2021
This book provides an insight into the Afro-Brazilian experience of racism in Brazil from the 19th Century to the present day, exploring people of African Ancestry’s responses to racism in the context of a society where racism was present in practice, though rarely explicit in law. Race and ...
Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic
1st Edition
Edited
By Jerome C Branche
August 14, 2020
Post/Colonialism and the Pursuit of Freedom in the Black Atlantic is an interdisciplinary collection of essays of wide historical and geographic scope which engages the legacy of diaspora, colonialism and slavery. The contributors explore the confrontation between Africa’s forced migrants and their...
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...