Development and diaspora: separate concerns?

Zack-Williams, Alfred B

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Volume 22, Issue 65

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Author(s): Alfred Zack‐Williams ^a

Publication date (Print): September 1995

Journal: Review of African Political Economy

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The article considers recent work on the nature of the black diaspora in the West and its relationship with Africa and African development. It condemns the disciplinary gulf between development studies, which has almost completely ignored questions of race and cultural identity, on the one hand, and diaspora studies which tend to focus on cultural and racial links with Africa to the exclusion of questions of political economy. The review is critical of perspectives which ignore the heterogeneity and variety of African cultures and experience, whether for purposes of creating a caricatured colonial subject or for asserting an undifferentiated unity between Africans on the continent and in the diaspora. It argues for an understanding of both the uniqueness and the commonality of African experiences on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Title: Review of African Political Economy

Publisher: Review of African Political Economy

ISSN (Print): 0305-6244

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Publication date (Print): September 1995

Volume: 22

Issue: 65

Pages: 349-358

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^a Department of Social Studies , University of Central Lancashire , UK

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Publisher ID: 8704145 Coden ID: Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 22, No. 65, September 1995, pp. 349-358

DOI: 10.1080/03056249508704145

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[1] Achebe C. . 1958. . Things Fall Apart . , London : : Heineman. .

[2] Banton M. . 1955. . The Coloured Quarter: Negro Immigrants in an English City . , London : : Cape. .

[3] 1957. . West African City: a Study of Tribal Life in Freetown . , London : : Oxford University Press. .

[4] Barratt Brown M. . 1974. . Economics of Imperialism . , London : : Penguin. .

[5] Bourne J. . 1980. . ‘Cheerleaders and Ombudsmen: The Sociology of Race Relations in Britain’. . Race and Class . , Vol. XXI((4))

[6] Blyden E. . 1967. . Christianity, Islam and the Negro Race . , Edinburgh : : Edinburgh, University Press. .

[7] Cabral A. . 1974. . Revolution in Guinea: an African People's Struggle . , (Selected Text). London :

[8] Cesaire A. . 1972. . Discourseon Colonialists . , New York : : Monthly Review Press. .

[9] Crummell A. . 1969. . The Future of Africa . , Detroit : : Negro History Press. .

[10] Davis A Y. . 1986. . Women, Race and Class . , London : : Women's Press. .

[11] Delany M R. . 1879. . Principia of Ethnology: The Races and Colour, with an Archeological Compendium of Ethiopia and Egypt, Civilisation from Years of Careful Examination and Enquiry . , Philadelphia : : Harper & Brother. .

[12] Douglass F. . 1962. . Life & Times of Frederick Douglass . , New York : : Macmillan. .

[13] Doyal L and Pennell I. . 1985. . The Political Economy of Health . , London : : Pluto Press. .

[14] Du Bois W E B. . 1981. . The Souls of Black Folk . , Greenwich , , US: : Fawcett Publications. .

[15] Elson Diane. . 1989. . “The Impact of Structural Adjustment on Women: Concepts and Issues’. ”. In The IMF, the World Bank and the African Debt . , Edited by: Onimode B. . London : : Zed Books. .

[16] Fanon F. . 1970. . Black Skins, White Masks . , London : : Paladin. .

[17] 1970. . Wretched of the Earth . , Harmondsworth : : Penguin. .

[18] Frank A G. . 1971. . The Sociology of Development and the Underdevelopment of Sociology . , London : : Pluto Press. .

[19] Gibbon P. . 1992. . Social Change and Economic Reform in Africa . , Uppsala : : Scandinavian Institute of African Studies. .

[20] Hill P. . 1972. . Rural Hausa . , London : : Cambridge University Press. .

[21] Keto T. . 1989. . The African‐centred Perspective of History . , New Jersey : : KA Publications. .

[22] Laye C. . 1980. . The African Child . , London : : Fontana. .

[23] Little L. . 1967. . The Mende of Sierra Lone . , London : : Routledge & Kegan Paul. .

[24] Little K. . 1955. . Negroes in Britain: a Study of Racial Relations in English Society . , London : : Routledge & Kegan Paul. .

[25] Meillassoux Claude. . 1981. . Maidens, Meal & Money: Capitalism and the Domestic Community . , London : : Cambridge University Press. .

[26] Oyebade B. . 1990. . ‘African Studies and the Afrocentric Paradigm: A Critique’. . Journal of Black Studies . , Vol. 21((2)): 233––38. .

[27] Samura A, Dahnia T and Greene P. . 1980. . The Effect of Structural Adjustment Policies on Human Welfare in Africa South of the Sahara: Sierra Leone . , Freetown : : UNICEF. .

[28] Senghor LS. . 1964. . On African Socialism . , London : : Pall Mall Press. .

[29] Sivanandan A. . 1991. . Setting the Context for Change . , (in CD Project Seering Group). London : : CCETSW. .

[30] Ture K, Carmichael S and Hamilton C V. . 1968. . Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America . , London : : Cape. .

[31] Umbalatu‐Adams T. . Nov. 1994 . “‘Black European Intellectuals’. ”. In Africa World Review . Nov. , p. 51––52. . London :

[32] Wolpe H. . 1988. . Race, Class & the Apartheid State . , London : : James Currey. .

[33] 1980. . The Articulation of the Modes of Production . , London : : Routledge & Kegan Paul. .

[34] Wright R. . 1972. . Native Son . , London : : Penguin, Harmonds worth. .

[35] 1970. . Black Boy: a Record of Childhood and Youth . , London : : Longmans. .

[36] Zack‐Williams A. . 1985a. . “‘Female Labour and Exploitation within African Social Formations’. ”. In Women in Nigeria (WIN) . , Zed Books. .

[37] 1985b. . “‘Female Urban Labour’. ”. In Women in Nigeria (WIN) . , London : : Zed Books. .

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