# Organization of Volume X  
Volume X of the General History of Africa contains 68 chapters organized into three sections. The first section, Redefining Global Africanity and blackness, is coordinated by Carole Boyce Davies. It is the result of an epistemological forum that addressed the different historical contexts where the concept of race emerged to understand how Africans and Afrodescendants perceive and refer to themselves, as well as how others have perceived and perceive them, from antiquity to contemporary times. The section is divided into two subsections. The first - Race, location, diaspora and global blackness - features contributions on different historical and contemporary realities concerning various fields of knowledge and various regions (United States, ancient Egypt, North Africa, Latin America, South Asia and China). The second - Global Africanity and the African diaspora - is dedicated to innovative epistemological efforts and new research on African transnationalisms and diasporas, feminist epistemologies in Global Africa, the black queer diaspora, discriminatory rhetoric in the ArabMuslim world, and indigeneity.  
The second section of the book, coordinated by Vanicléia Silva Santos, is structured around six themes: the formation of communities, resistance, spiritualities, languages, labour and technology, and returns to Africa. The first concerns the currents of voluntary and involuntary movements in the eastern and western Indian Ocean, as well as the creation of black communities in Europe, the Indian Ocean region, the west and east coasts of Africa, and the Americas. The second has to do with the various forms of resistance among Africans and those of their descendants who found themselves enslaved or under other forms of oppression and exploitation in and outside Africa. The theme of resistance is not limited to this part of the book. In the third thematic subsection, diasporic forms of religion are addressed from the standpoint of