14 Transnational Feminism for Global Africa (Amina MAMA) ..... 235
15 Intellectual Genealogies of Black/Queer/Diaspora (Jafari S. ALLEN) ..... 247
16 Genealogy of a Discriminatory Rhetoric in the Classical Arab-Muslim World (Salah TRABELSI) ..... 263
Section II: Mapping the African Diasporas (Coordinator, Vanicleia SILVA SANTOS)
Introduction (Vanicléia SILVA SANTOS) ..... 281
I Africans in Ancient China (900-1600 CE) (Don J. WYATT) ..... 305
2 The Afro-Indian Diaspora and the Rise of European Influence (1500-1700) (Faaeza JASDANWALLA) ..... 313
3 Iranian People of African Descent: Local Boundary and National Unity (Behnaz MIRZAI) ..... 325
4 The African Diaspora in Oceania (1700-1800) (Cassandra PYBUS) ..... 333  
5 The 'Masombika' or 'Makoa' in Madagascar (Klara BOYER-ROSSOL) ..... 347
6 Mauritius, between Community Compartmentalisation and Cultural Melting Pots (Catherine SERVAN-SCHREIBER) ..... 357
7 Africans in Portugal: Integration and Africanity (Fifteenth-Nineteenth Centuries) (Isabel CASTRO HENRIQUES ) ..... 367
8 Afro-Atlantic Communities in the Atlantic World (Roquinaldo FERREIRA, Carlos da SILVA Jr) ..... 381
9 Creolization in Early Modern West Africa and African Diaspora: Lowcountry Creola' and the Making of Gullah Geechee ca. 1500-1860 (Edda L. FIELDS-BLACK) ..... 401
Io Communities of African Descent in Canada (Michele A. JOHNSON) ..... 417
I I African-Mexican Communities: Excluded from the Mexican Nation (Paulette A. RAMSAY) ..... 439
I2 African Communities in Costa Rica and Central America (Rina CÁCERES) ..... 457
I3 Blackness Across Borders: Jamaican Diasporas and New Politics of Citizenship (Deborah A. THOMAS) ..... 471
I4 Resistance of Malagasy Slaves to Enslavement (in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries) (Rafael THIÉBAUT) ..... 493
I5 Slave Revolt in Brazil (João José REIS) ..... 521
I6 Enslaved Resistance in North America (Sylviane DIOUF) ..... 533
I7 The Participation of Berber, Nubian and Sudanese Soldiers in the Muslim Conquest of the Iberian Peninsula (Eighth-Twelfth Centuries) (Salah TRABELSI) ..... 541