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Uncovering the History of Africans in Asia
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The presence of Africans in Asia has been overshadowed by the tragedy of Atlantic slavery. Identifying Africans in Asia therefore challenges contemporary scholarship. Within this context, the processes of assimilation and marginalisation hinder identification of African migrants. This book demonstrates the multiplicity of roles performed by Africans and the heights that a few of them reached, even in a single generation. Drawing on a variety of sources, both oral and documented, this book reveals the extent of the African presence in Asia.
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“This is true in many of the contributions in The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean (Jayasuriya & Pankhurst 2003), the voluminous African Diaspora in Asia: Explorations of a Less Known Fact (Prasad & Angenot 2008), the thinner collection Uncovering the History of Africans in Asia (Jayasuriya & Angenot 2008), and Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya's recent African Identity in Asia: Cultural Effects of”
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- Authors
- de Silva Jayasuriya, S., & Angenot, J.-P.
- Venue
- BRILL eBooks
- Publisher
- BRILL
- Published
- 2008-07-31
- OpenAlex
- W37513908
- Cited by
- 43
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 2 · 2024: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 19 · 2017: 3 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 1.43
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- BRILL eBooks (publishedVersion)
- ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst) (submittedVersion)
- University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies
- Social Sciences › Demography › Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Legal and cultural studies analysis
- Keywords
- African migration, Atlantic slavery, assimilation, marginalization, African diaspora
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