# CONTENTS  
List of Figures ..... XV
List of Tables and Graphics ..... XIX
Foreword by Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO ..... XXI
General introduction: Reconceptualizing the History of Africa and its Diasporas (Augustin F. C. HOLL, the Chair of the Scientific Committee) ..... XXV
Introduction: History of Africa and its Diasporas (Vanicléia SILVA SANTOS) ..... XLIX
Section I: Redefining Global Africanity and Blackness (Coordinator Carole BOYCE-DAVIS)
Introduction: The Epistemological Basis for Claiming Black Identities (Carole BOYCE-DAVIS) ..... 3
I Blackness Beyond the United States: Understanding New Diasporic Definitions (Michelle M. WRIGHT) ..... 29
2 Conceptualising Colour Representation in Antiquity: From Kmt, The Greco-Roman World to The Middle Ages (Amon Saba SAAKANA) ..... 45
3 North Africa and the Origins of Epistemic Blackness (Jesse BENJAMIN) ..... 61
4 What's in a Name? Complications of Blackness and Afrodescendant Definitions in Latin America and the Spanish-Speaking Caribbean (Augustín LAÓ-MONTES) ..... 77  
5 Becoming Black: Brazil's Long Search for Racial Identity (Elaine ROCHA) ..... 101
6 The Indian Ocean as Diasporic Field (Françoise VERGES) ..... 123
7 African Diaspora in South Asia: A Theoretical Perspective (Shihan DE SILVA JAYASURIYA) ..... 133
8 Blacks/Africans in China: Historical Process and Diasporic Experience (Anshan LI) ..... 143
9 Being Black in Australia (Karina SMITH, Christopher SONN and Tracey COOPER) ..... 161
Io Transnationalism, Diasporas and the African Diaspora: Some Theoretical Considerations (Harry GOULBOURNE) ..... 177
I I Economics of the Transatlantic African Diaspora (Joseph E. INIKORI) ..... 189
12 Reflections on Indigeneity and African Belonging in the Caribbean and the Americas (Shona N. JACKSON) ..... 203
13 Black Studies Epistemologies in the United States of America (Charisse BURDEN-STELLY) ..... 217
14 Transnational Feminism for Global Africa (Amina MAMA) ..... 235
15 Intellectual Genealogies of Black/Queer/Diaspora (Jafari S. ALLEN) ..... 247