... for hundreds of years and contributed to societies in Oceania in collaboration with Pacific Islanders. Reducing a study of the Black Pacific (and Asia) to their participation in US imperialism contributes to the antiBlack racism members of the African diaspora face in places like Hawai‘i, where residents...

... as a form of Black Americans participating in settler colonial processes meant to erase and displace Indigenous peoples. He argues that we should look at BI as an analytic that African Americans have used to create belonging and continue to express cultures practiced throughout the African diaspora, adapted...

... the ways in which Oscar and Belí (and all Dominicans) are children of the African Diaspora. Intertwined with this recovery of blackness in the novel is its redefinition. Díaz writes against a collective tendency in the United States to see “Black” and “Latino” as two mutually exclusive identities...