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In the last few decades the people of the African diaspora have intensified their struggles against racial discrimination and for equality. This account of these social movements include action in Latin America, the Indian Ocean World, Europe, Canada and the United States.

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Introduction; L.Mullings Latin America Contesting Politics as Usual; T.S.Paschel & M.Q.Sawyer Multiethnic Nations and Cultural Citizenship; J.H.A.Sánchez The Black Movement in Panamá; G.Priestley & A.Barrow The Liberation Imperative of Black Genocide; J.H.Costa Vargas Transnational Black Feminism in the Twenty-first Century; K.L.Caldwell The Emergence and Evolving Character of Contemporary Afro-Bolivian Mobilization; S.Busdiecker Afro-descendant Struggles for Collective Rights in Latin America; J.Hooker Indian Ocean World Indians of African Descent; B.Shroff Taking on Empires; D.Vine Europe, Canada and the U.S Fightback; C.Lusane Rethinking Global Justice; J.Sudbury Reconstituting Political Genealogies; A.Aparicio New Forms; R.Codrington Eco-Apartheid and Global Greenwaves; M.Checker Sista´ Friends and Other Allies; P.Nadasen Barack Obama and the Contours of African American Social Protest Movements; M.Marable Back to Africa New Social Movements in Nubian Identity Among Nubians in Egypt, Sudan, and the United States; C.Fluehr-Lobban & R.A.Lobban Bios

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MANNING MARABLE is Professor of History and Political Science and Director, Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University, USA.

LEITH MULLINGS is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is also the president of the American Anthropology Association, USA.

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