Diaspora (Re) Writing of Race and Space: An International Conference
Remapping the Black Atlantic: Diaspora (Re)Writings of Race and Space International Conference April 12-14, 2013 It has been two decades since the publication of Paul Gilroy’s seminal book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993) which marked a pivotal shift in our understanding of the experience of transnational Black modernity. More than simply understanding Black experiences from around the Atlantic basin as being marginal to or derived from the culture of modernity, Gilroy argued that for over a century an