Diaspora Studies Research Articles

Nepalese Diaspora in India: An Epistemological Contestation

Diaspora as a concept has come a long way and includes voluntary as well as forced migration. The Nepalese diaspora particularly in India has been understudied. Nepalese are dispersed almost all over the world. India remains one of the key destinations for many of them since the historical period. Scholars are working in this domain found to be more inclined to describing rather than conceptualising Nepalese diaspora in the context of Nepalese diaspora in India. Many of the literatures have described it assuming all Indian Nepalis as a part of it. This article tries to comprehend the context of Nepalese diaspora delineating the history of Nepalese migration outside Nepal. It presents the prevailing debate regarding the status of Nepalese diaspora in India. This article presents that all Indian Nepalis are not a part of Nepalese diaspora because Indian Nepalis are not all descendants of immigrants from their homeland Nepal. This article will be useful for those working in the field of migration and diaspora studies, ethnicity and public policy, as well as history, anthropology, and international studies. The paper is based on the review of research literatures published in different journals and edited books. Besides, observation method was employed.

US Central American Identities in Roberto Quesada’s Big Banana and Nunca entres por Miami

Following several calls in recent scholarship for increased attention to the study of the Central American diaspora in the United States, this article offers readings of Honduran-born author Roberto Quesada’s novels Big Banana (1999) and Nunca entres por Miami (2003). Written in New York City, where he has resided since 1989, Big Banana highlights issues of Central American identity, migration, and immigrant experiences. Published four years later, Nunca entres por Miami continues to engage with these important topics. My readings of Quesada’s novels focus on the ways in which they construct cultural memory and identity by providing critical historical context that is absent from most mass media coverage of Central American migration to the United States. By engaging with theoretical constructions of Latinidad, this article also analyzes the ways in which Quesada’s characters represent the multi-layered and intersectional nature of US Central American identities. Ultimately, I posit that these novels make a move towards establishing the identity politics that critics such as Arturo Arias assert will be necessary for US Central Americans to emerge as a unique, recognizable, and influential entity in the multicultural landscape of the United States in the twenty-first century.

ВОСТОЧНЫЕ ВЕТВИ РОССИЙСКОЙ ДИАСПОРЫ – 2022

The article provides an overview of the 13th scientific inter-institutional conference with the participation of foreign speakers, dedicated to the study of the Russian diaspora in the countries of the East, which was held in a mixed format at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences on May 18, 2022. The conference was organized by the Laboratory for the Study of the Russian Diaspora in the Countries of the East, Center for Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences.

Disrupted and Unsettled: An Introduction to Monuments, Memorials, and Italian Migrations

Disrupted and Unsettled: An Introduction to Monuments, Memorials, and Italian Migrations

The Chechens and Kurds of Kazakhstan between Historical and Second Homelands

Abstract Almost all minority ethnic groups in Kazakhstan are immigrants. This means that in addition to their current place of residence, Kazakhstan (their “Second Homeland”), they also have a place of origin (their “Historical Homeland”). The leadership of the country has approached this situation, which offers opportunities as well as dangers, by explicitly exhorting the official ethnic representations of minorities to nurture contacts with their Historical Homelands. In this article the examples of the Chechens and Kurds will be used to show how the representations of both ethnicities actively and politically pursued this task. For both groups, representing a nation without an independent state, a fourth actor must be added to the “triangle nexus” familiar from diaspora studies, respectively Russia and Turkey, whose positions the Kazakhstani government cannot simply disregard. What emerges from the study is the strong emotional link of both minorities’ representatives with Kazakhstan as their Second Homeland.

Political Activism in Canada: When Tibetans in Toronto Enter into Local Politics

This article investigates the political mobilization of Tibetans in Toronto. I develop the hypothesis that Tibetans in Toronto who enter into local politics are already politicized, which facilitates the transition from activism within the Tibetan community to activism in Canadian society. To explore this transition from an inward- to an outward-looking type of mobilization, I draw on theoretical insights about the political integration of migrants developed by leading scholars in Social Movement Studies and Diaspora Studies. The careers of the two Tibetans who stood for office in Toronto in 2018, Bhutila Karpoche and Kalsang Dolma, as well as of Tibetan blogger and campaign manager Gelek Badheytsang, then serve to analyze the “strategic action fields” (Fligstein and McAdam 2012) or “arenas” (Jasper and Duyvendak 2015) invested by the Tibetans who choose to enter into local politics.

Diaspora formation and mobilisation: The emerging Hong Kong diaspora in the anti‐extradition bill movement

AbstractOver the years, literature studying stateless diaspora formation through a transborder social movement studies approach is growing. The recent rise of Hong Kong diaspora provides an emerging case of stateless diaspora that introduces new empirical insights into the scholarly literature. Using a mixed‐method research strategy, this study empirically investigates the formation of the Hong Kong diaspora as a ‘historically contingent process’, through which overseas Hongkongers were mobilised during the 2019–20 Anti‐Extradition Bill Movement (critical event) to join global protests (mobilising practices) by diaspora groups and activists (mobilising agents). Achieved transborder outreach across the Global North by mobilising their strong moral and cultural resources, it remains to be seen whether the emerging Hong Kong diaspora will move towards a full‐fledged, sustained identity‐based movement. The case study of Hong Kong diaspora offers new comparative insights and establishes a mixed‐method analytical framework for comparing stateless diaspora worldwide.

Communication Strategies of Polish Exiles of the second half of the 19th Century (the example of Tara and Kurgan)

Diaspora studies penetrating into the Polish-Siberian theme since the late 1990s focused as a rule on the study of stable institutions, social organizations created by migrants for the preservation and development of ethnic community, and articulation of ethnic interests. However, such organizations among the Siberian Poles appeared only in the late XIX-early XX centuries. To understand the ethnic processes that took place among Polish migrants in the earlier period, the study of informal social ties of Polish migrants, various elements of group solidarity and communication systems becomes of paramount importance.
 The purpose of this study is to reconstruct, on the basis of office documentation and correspondence, the communication strategies of exiled participants in the revolts of the 1863-1864 on the example of two cities of Tobolsk province, namely, Kurgan and Tara.
 As a result of the study, we recorded the existence of a fraternity in Tara, covering most of the Poles who lived in the city. The self-organization of the exiles was facilitated by the presence of ready-made social structures – large traditional families and the system of communication between them that has developed at home. The emersion of the community in Kurgan was the result of the efforts of a group of exiled nobles who had a good education. In the conditions of a limited social status, and the absence of rich compatriots, the social value of this community turned out to be insufficient to become the center of attraction for Poles.

Indian diaspora in Ghana: cultural and family heritage of tourists' travel preference

PurposeThe literature has acknowledged the importance of diaspora studies because of the influx of funds into the local economy, including the tourism and hospitality sector. However, little empirical research appears to be known about the subject matter, principally within the developing country perspective. This study aims to respond to research calls by investigating the impact of diasporic cultural heritage, family heritage on travel preference of West African Indian migrant visitors to their homeland.Design/methodology/approachThis research is guided by the theory of acculturation. A quantitative data were gathered from a sample of 312 diasporas, and the regression analysis was used to analyze the data.FindingsThe study finds that cultural heritage and family heritage have positive and significant impact on travel preference of migrant visitors to their homeland. Further analysis of the independent sample t-test reveals a significant difference between Indian Ghanaians and Ghanaian Indians in their thought of cultural heritage. However, no significant differences were found in the Indian Ghanaian and Ghanaian Indian’s family heritage and travel preference to their homeland.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is destination-specific of Indian migrant visitors. The application of the study’s outcome to other diaspora would demand a larger sample size for generalization to be made. The study offers compelling insights on cultural heritage, family heritage and travel preference to marketing a diaspora tourism site.Originality/valueThe study expands the application of the theory of acculturation within the diaspora literature and establishes that integration and separation strategies of the theory explain the positive interests of the migrant visitors’ traveling preference to their homeland.

Dharma in America: A Short History of Hindu-Jain Diaspora by Pankaj Jain

As a scholar of diaspora studies and having read a fair share of literature on diaspora, there is one question that I always ask before starting to read a book on diaspora: why is it important to know about diaspora? A related question is, important to whom? Why do we need to tell stories of those who have left? I determine the eminence of the book based on how far the author has been able to answer the above questions and Dharma in America doesn’t disappoint me. Although every immigrant story is amazing, the Journey of Indians in America is distinctive on many fronts including education, income and entrepreneurship. Once “lost actors” are now “national assets” for both the host country and the homeland. Immigration to the United States from India started in the early 19th century when Indian immigrants began settling in communities along the West Coast. Although they originally arrived in small numbers, new opportunities arose in the middle of the 20th century, and the population grew larger in the following decades. As of 2019, about 2.7 million Indian immigrants resided in the United States (Hanna & Batlova, 2020). Today, Indian immigrants account for approximately 6 per cent of the U.S. foreign-born population, making them the second-largest immigrant group in the country, after Mexicans (Ibid).

Globalization, Diasporas, and Transnationalism: Jews in the Americas

This paper analyzes the structures and trends of the establishment, growth, and transformation of the Jewish presence in the Americas. After outlining several fundamental characteristics of the general continental societal environment and its internal differentiation, we critically discuss several theoretical approaches to a comparative assessment of the Jewish experience. Conceptual formulations include globalization, diaspora studies, and transnationalism, aiming to highlight their achievements and drawbacks. Selected sociohistorical aspects relevant to the development of Jewish immigration, settlement, and community formation are analyzed. This is followed by the exploration of more recent patterns, outlining emerging configurations and challenges. The article focuses on the differences and commonalities between the North (United States and Canada) and the diverse Latin American experiences. The conceptual referents imply rethinking the relationship between societies, communities, individuals, territories, and sociopolitical spaces along the changing contours of dispersion. Lessons from the past may help outline future paths.

Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial law and Arabs in Southeast Asia by Nurfadzilah Yahaya (review)

Reviewed by: Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial law and Arabs in Southeast Asia by Nurfadzilah Yahaya Sai Siew-Min Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial law and Arabs in Southeast Asia. By Nurfadzilah Yahaya. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2020. 251 pp, ISBN 978-150-1750-87-8 (cloth) Nurfadzilah Yahaya's Fluid Jurisdictions: colonial law and Arabs in Southeast Asia is an expansive book that speaks to multiple fields of history. This is surely a book about the Hadhrami Arab diasporic elite in island Southeast Asia but Nurfadzilah challenges what we know about diasporas and their relationships with colonialism and imperialism in this region from multiple angles. To begin with, the book is not a straightforward historical ethnography of 'the Arab diaspora' at a specific site, a genre readers may be more familiar with. Both in the Introduction and Conclusion, Nurfadzilah takes issue with our easy association of 'diaspora' and 'diasporic consciousness' with 'mobility', 'hybridity' and 'cosmopolitanism'. Addressing the scholarship of Sumit Mandal and Eng-Seng Ho who emphasize the 'hybridity' of [End Page 217] the Arab diaspora, she writes that there were many Arabs who identified solely as 'Arab' by patrilineal descent and that the category was remarkably durable across the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia. Her objective, however, is not to revert to a purist definition of 'Arab-ness' as the counter-point to 'hybridised Arab-ness' or attempt to fix the category to discern who belonged. Instead, the book resists reducing what being 'diasporic' meant historically to our cliched imagination. Relying on lively prose and the power of historical narrative to weave a complex and multi-dimensional story that is simultaneously conceptually sophisticated, Nurfadzilah has written a book that requires concentrated and repeated reading to appreciate her intricate insights and careful treatment of both the copious archival materials she examines as well as the formidable range of scholarly literature with which she is engaged. What makes this book unlike most historical-ethnographical studies on ethnic diasporas in Southeast Asia is its fine-grained examination of colonial law in what used to be the Straits Settlements and the Netherlands East Indies. Trained as a legal historian, Nurfadzilah draws heavily from an impressive and updated scholarship in the fields of imperial, colonial and international law, and legal pluralism in particular. While legal pluralism and what is known as 'Islamic law' in Southeast Asia is well-studied, studies on ethnic diasporas in Southeast Asia have seldom intersected with these fields. The scholarship on ethnic diasporas in the region tend to be stripped down to focus overwhelmingly on the identity of diasporic communities understood in the political, socio-economic and culturalist senses. Very rarely does law, and for that matter, colonial law, feature centrally in these studies. Colonial law and colonialist legal classifications tend to appear in the literature only to be dismissed by scholars for suppressing the fluidity and hybridity of diasporic identities or used to demonstrate how diasporic communities 'played' multiple legal identities that were arguably insincere and false. This book, however, challenges these perspectives by featuring colonial law at its core and as Nurfadzilah argues, flips conventional wisdom around. The book demonstrates how, why and with what paradoxical and unexpected consequences diasporic Arab elites appealed to and allied themselves with colonial legal regimes, in the process driving the expansion of colonial jurisdiction over the most intimate areas of their lives as well as the lives of Muslim populations in the region. Nurfadzilah's demonstration that colonial law was instrumental to how mobile individuals in the region—including women whose presence is well-documented in the book—conducted their lives and businesses is one of the most significant contributions of the book to the study of diasporas in the region. The book opens with an evocative description of the so-called 'Oertatan' in the Malay world in 1599 which turns out to be a mangled name for the Malay word 'orang datang', meaning 'newly-arrived'. The Introduction is effective for mapping the geo-legal domains the book will traverse as well as the key concepts of writing and paperwork, diasporas, legal pluralism and Islamic law which centres the book. It is absolutely necessary to begin with the Introduction without which readers may...

알리기 위한 지역학, 알고 싶은 지역학 - 미국 내 한국학 수업 풍경과 연구 동향

This review essay introduces the landscape of Korean Studies class in the US and recent books in Korean Studies with three primary points: kinship studies in the context of war, history of social movements and the Korean diaspora. First, kinship studies based on the context of the Korean War and the Cold War have paid attention to war traumas, personal/collective sufferings and memories. Among them are studies that examine how the most intimate relationship, “kinship”, can turn into political relationships. This articulation of kinship as politics has allowed new ways of historical narrative writing and new analysis of subject formation. These studies address the process in which kinship has acquired political meanings and war lives across and beyond the battle field and ideological competitions as a continuous legacy. Second, studies of social movements linked to the developmental state have pointed out the continuity of democratization movements after the democratic transition. These studies highlight the institutionalization of democratization movements and co-existing movement with a defiance. Youths familiar and active on online communities have primarily led the disorganized and de-institutionalized political movements as a way to participate in political activities in an ordinary sense. Third, Korean diaspora studies have explored the formation of overseas Koreans as ethnic minority subjects and the contested ways that they encounter the homeland (mainly South Korea) in the context of globalization and post Cold War. Korean diaspora studies have rapidly increased as the neoliberal South Korean government recognized the “value” of overseas Koreans. This review of books in Korean studies demonstrates that they are interrogating complex historical and theoretical questions and not merely aiming to introduce and promote an unknown country to the world. Within the US, Korean Studies has emerged as a critical channel that allows American students to ask reflective questions about the relationship that the US has established with the world, and about global capitalism through the lens of Korea.

From “Sea Turtles” to “Grassroots Ambassadors”: The Chinese Politics of Outbound Student Migration

International student migration/mobility (ISM) has long come under the spotlight in migration and education studies. Previous research has focused primarily on inbound students in Western host countries, with much less attention on sending countries’ policies. Based on evidence from interviews, ethnography, and policy analysis in China, the world’s largest source country of student migrants, I argue that outbound student migration can be integrated into the home country’s broader diaspora politics to serve economic, governmental, and geopolitical policy objectives. These diverse, sometimes-clashing, interests are predicated upon China’s domestic politics and global positioning. To establish a conceptual bridge between ISM and diaspora studies, I depart from the mobility paradigm’s emphases on neoliberalism and de-regulation and, instead, foreground nation-states’ changing, yet-unabating, interests in regulating and strategizing about overseas students. I find that following decades of prioritizing the economic and governmental impacts of student returnees ( haigui, or colloquially “sea turtles”) in boosting the domestic economy and maintaining political stability, China now attaches growing importance to student migrants’ geopolitical value as “grassroots ambassadors” ( minjian dashi) in expanding China’s global influence and enhancing its national image abroad. This geopolitics-focused national reorientation, however, may not be well received by student migrants themselves or fully implemented by street-level migration bureaucrats. By examining tensions between the central Chinese state, student migrants, and frontline local officials, this article sheds new light on ISM as a dynamic policy arena where state ambitions crosscut individual desires and national grand plans are confronted with flexible local improvisation.

Global Asias: Method, Architecture, Praxis

This essay draws on the philosophy, principles, and practices animating Global Asias scholarship to consider how this conceptual rubric shifts the ways in which we approach the subjects, objects, methods, and praxes of the academic study of Asia. Structurally dissonant as an epistemological project, Global Asias encourages scholars to acknowledge the institutional designs and disciplinary practices that currently organize and make legible work on Asia and its diasporas while simultaneously highlighting the limits of, and points of noncontact between, the broader infrastructures (including area studies, ethnic studies, diaspora studies, and the disciplines and interdisciplines) under which such work has traditionally been organized. In addition to offering a conceptual topography of Global Asias, this essay proposes three praxis-oriented concepts—relational nonalignment, structural dissonance, and imaginable ageography—that enable Global Asias as a tactical and evolving approach to the study of Asia and its multiple diasporas, one which actively resists the drive toward “critical consolidation” that often results from academic paradigm work.

Modern Urban Diasporas: Factors of Social Dynamics (on Materials of Tuva Diaspora in the City Of Abakan)

In the summer and autumn of 2021, the Department of Philosophy and Cultural Studies of Khakass State University conducted a pilot sociological study of the Tuvan diaspora in the city of Abakan. One of the main tasks of the study was to build a general integrated theoretical model of the identity of ethnic communities, which would be applicable to the analysis of ethnocultural processes in modern urban conditions. Diasporas are seen as complex multilevel systems that can be visualized through a set of specific behavioral scenarios. These scenarios were supposed to be investigated using the methodology of the frames of Ervin Goffman and the concept of iconic turn in the culture of Ilya Inishev. The preliminary results of the study are presented in this article. It is argued that modern ethnic diasporas have a second or third-order ethnic identity (arising after the traditional and industrial stages of social development). This identity is characteristic of adults who have passed through people who have created a family, have children, an education and a profession, but for various reasons they have not realized themselves in their historical homeland. Ethnic identity of such people does not involve participation in ethnic organizations and associations, but involves the use of visual markers that signal their own ethnic identification and self-identification. In the first approach, the model seems justified, the materials of the in-depth interviews and the expert interviews as a whole correspond to its basic provisions. Further development and adjustment of the model will be possible after processing of all empirical data and analysis of the study results.

Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651–1825 by Aviva Ben-Ur (review)

Reviewed by: Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651–1825 by Aviva Ben-Ur Stanley Mirvis Aviva Ben-Ur. Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society: Suriname in the Atlantic World, 1651–1825. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020. 392 pp. doi:10.1017/S0364009421000258 Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society heralds the emancipation of the Caribbean experience from the margins of early American Jewish history. Aviva Ben-Ur is the leading voice in a chorus of scholars dedicated to contextualizing Jewish history within the methodological framework of Atlantic studies and "creating a paradigm for Jewish Atlantic history that combines comparison, connection, and localism" (255). She has more than succeeded in achieving this goal. Through a comprehensive investigation of archival sources, particularly the extensive Surinamese Jewish communal records at the National Archives of the Netherlands, Ben-Ur challenges some of the most canonical assumptions of Jewish history. These include religious tolerance as the primary motivation for early American migration, the Jewish desire for emancipation, and the Jewish trend to acculturate "upward." She demonstrates that these historiographic dogmas don't apply to Suriname. As much as it was entangled in the web of [End Page 461] the Atlantic world, Jewish life in Suriname was a singularity that defies categorization using traditional models. Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society powerfully contributes to the legacy of Salo W. Baron's antilachrymose model of Jewish history. Ben-Ur reconsiders the ubiquity of premodern Jewish subalterity. In Suriname, Jews held an unparalleled degree of corporate autonomy and were empowered through their mastery over an enslaved majority. She further reminds us that by the end of the eighteenth century, Jews made up two-thirds of the non-African descendent population of Suriname. Among Ben-Ur's boldest antilachrymose rebukes is her challenge to the narrative of religious tolerance as the primary motivation behind Jewish migration. She attributes this persistent view to the skewed self-presentation of Suriname's Portuguese elites, like David Nassy, who portrayed themselves as belonging to a community of refugees empowered by the liberties of their colonial haven. They also sought to propagate an illusion of wealth (47). Ben-Ur demonstrates that Jews in Suriname were overwhelmingly poor, and it was poverty that brought them to the colony. Jewish Autonomy in a Slave Society is informed by a trend in early modern Portuguese diaspora studies to deemphasize a traditional bom Judesmo approach—highlighting nobility, wealth, and restraint—and instead focusing on indigent and itinerate social welfare recipients. Ben-Ur characterizes Jodensavanne as a paupers' town (54) in defiance of the more standard depiction of the town's wealth and privilege—which might have been the case for only a few Sabbath vacationers from surrounding plantations (61). Instead, she recalibrates the discussion to focus on the mechanics of the despachado system bringing poor Jews to the colony (116–17). Rather than a proto-Zionist promised land, Ben-Ur's Jodensavanne is a nonheroic site of violence, dislocation, and poverty (74). The book's title alludes to the elusive concept of Jewish self-rule, one of the colony's most conspicuous singularities. Ben-Ur finds the closest Jewish parallel in early modern Livorno as well as makes local comparisons to Suriname's Maroon and Indian populations. Autonomy, however, was not synonymous with liberty. Ben-Ur argues that autonomy cast a shadow of tyranny in the way it mandated Jewishness (93) and empowered elite Portuguese over the poor, Ashkenazim, and Jews of color (110). Autonomy was not what all of the Jews of the colony wanted. Jewish autonomy in Suriname translated into a codification of Portuguese ethnic supremacy (62–63). Ben-Ur reexamines some of Jewish history's most sacred ideals about emancipation, the process of acquiring legal parity with white Christians, which occurred in Suriname in 1825. Whereas emancipation is typically portrayed as a Jewish aspiration, in Suriname Jewish leaders swam against the tides of change by clinging to their corporate autonomy (227). Furthermore, Ben-Ur argues that Surinamese emancipation was only a "legal fiction" (254). Emancipation simply transformed the legal definitions of Surinamese Jews from an incorporated ethnic group to a religious community. Analyses of acculturation and emancipation go hand...

Contributing Authors

CÉCILE ACCILIEN is the chair of the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and a professor of African and African Diaspora studies at Kennesaw State University, Georgia.LISETTE ACOSTA CORNIEL is an assistant professor of Latin American studies in the Department of Race and Ethnic Studies at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY.GISELLE LIZA ANATOL is a professor of English at the University of Kansas, Lawrence and the outgoing president of the international Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars.ELIZABETH ARANDA is a professor of sociology and associate dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Florida. A native of Puerto Rico, she has dedicated herself to documenting the lived experience of migration and to share (im)migrants’ stories through her research and teaching. Her research addresses migrants’ emotional well-being and their adapting to challenges posed by racial and ethnic inequalities and legal status. Email: earanda@usf.eduREBECA BLACKWELL is a sociology PhD candidate at the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on the areas of social psychology and social communication. She studies emotions in society, cultural understandings of health, disability, and migration. Some of her previous work includes social issues in Venezuela, her native country, and Peru, her adoptive home for five years. She comes from a background in translation work and linguistic research back in Venezuela. Email: rblackwell@usf.eduSARAH A. CLUNIS is originally from Kingston, Jamaica, and received her PhD in art history in 2006 and a master's in art history in 2000 from the University of Iowa. She is the curator of the African Collections and director of academic partnerships at the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, having previously worked as the director of the Xavier University Art Gallery, supervisor of the art collection team, and assistant professor of art history at Xavier University in Louisiana. She specializes in the arts of Africa and the African Diaspora from traditional to contemporary. Clunis has also published in national and international magazines and journals. Her work examines gender, race, and migration in multiple contexts. She is currently the project curator for the Helis Foundation John Scott Center at the Louisiana Endowment of the Humanities, developing a permanent exhibition titled Dancing at the Crossroads, an organic development of her professional and scholarly trajectory. Clunis continues to work on multiple projects on the visual culture of Afrofuturism and diversity and inclusion in the arts.SABINE LAMOUR is an international sociologist trained in France and Haiti. Currently, she is completing a research project that explores the role of the evangelical in the political context. Since 2005, she has been working with Haitian women's organizations as a feminist activist and an independent consultant at both urban and rural levels. Since 2017, she has been the national coordinator of Solidarite Fanm Ayisyèn (SOFA)and has taught courses at l'Université d’État d'Haïti (UEH) since 2012. She is interested in topics such as gender, sexualities, slavery, family dynamics in the Caribbean, and Haiti's political system. In 2018, Lamour copublished Déjouer le Silence: Contre-discours sur les Femmes Haïtiennes and has published articles in Chemins critiques; Women, Gender, and Families of Color; and Revue internationale des études du développement.LAURA LOPEZ MARTINEZ received a bachelor of arts degree from the Universidad de los Andes, in Bogota, Colombia. She also holds a master's in history and literature from the Columbia University. Currently, she is finishing her second year as a PhD student in modern languages at Swansea University, Wales. Her thesis is a comparative study of the works of two Caribbean writers: Edwidge Danticat and Hazel Robinson, through the lens of ecocriticism and postcolonial studies. Lopez Martinez's research explores issues such as language and identity, gender, and the relationship between human beings and nature.ALEXANDRIA MILLER is a PhD student in the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University. Her research interests include Africana feminisms, Caribbean studies, Black women's intellectual history, and cultural studies.ALESSANDRA ROSA is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Sociology at University of South Florida. As a Puerto Rican, she has dedicated her teaching, research, and service to fostering diversity, equity, and justice. Her research centers on social movements, internet activism, education, Puerto Rican studies, postdisaster migration studies, emotional well-being, and discourse analysis. Email: amrosa1@usf.edu.

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The University of Texas's “Racial Geography Tour,” designed by Dr. Edmund Gordon

The University of Texas's “Racial Geography Tour,” designed by Dr. Edmund Gordon