HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Diaspora Studies, Arjun Appadurai, Gender Trouble

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One approach to diaspora and literature state condition of exile/diaspora is material condition that produces specific/repeated literary responses: condition of exile/diaspora. Avoid essentialising (make more important than it is) writers or their work by referring back to monolithic notion of blackness or even. African diasporic-ness": busia the willingness to embrace a commonality might blind us to the uniqueness which distinguishes the separate peoples of the desired whole" . As i face africa i ask myself: what is it between us that constitutes a tie which. Negro . which is constantly drawing into closer relations all the scattered. African peoples whether they are in the old world of the new. There is not only the tie of race, which is strong in any case, but there is the badge of colour, which is specially important in the case of the black man. America and the west indies: de bois badge of colour" less important than the social heritage".