BOOKS ON THE GLOBAL AFRICAN DIASPORA & AFRICA
These books by Dr. Sheila S Walker present new perspectives redefining the Global African Diaspora and its relationships with Africa.
African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas
This volume challenges outdated views of Africans' roles throughout the Americas, and provides information that reconceptualizes the Atlantic world. It features leaders of lesser known African Diasporan societies as well as internationally known scholarly authorities.
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In the documentaries to the right and below, Dr. Walker talks about the African demographics and development of the Americas and the unsuspected Pan-American presence of African Diaspora communities and culture.
Sheila discusses the book in the video below
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African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas, CBS Interview by JC Hayward
This CBS broadcast on “JC and Friends on 9News” featured an interview by acclaimed media personality JC Hayward, the first female television news anchor in Washington, DC. It focused on my book “African Roots/American Cultures: Africa in the Creation of the Americas,” and a presentation of my documentary, “Scattered Africa: Faces and Voices of the African Diaspora,” that complements the book. It was followed by a book signing at TransAfrica, then an influential African American lobby for Africa and the Caribbean.
Libros en los cuales Afrodescendientes de sudAmerica hablan de sus realidades
¿Por qué ha sido tan importante para los esclavistas distorsionar la historia de los esclavizados? ¿Por qué es tan importante que los descendientes de los esclavizados descubran y cuenten su propia historia? Tiene un impacto distinto saber, con pruebas documentadas, que los antepasados de los afrodescendientes no se dejaron cosificar; que aportaron tecnología sofisticada desde África y necesaria para desarrollar las nuevas sociedades de las Américas; que crearon nuevas culturas; que mantuvieron sus maneras de transmitir la sabiduría ancestral; que resistieron de múltiples maneras, desde el principio y al final, en todos lugares, a un sistema basado en diversas formas de violencia extrema.
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Conocimiento desde adentro: los afrosudamericanos hablan de sus pueblos y sus historias (Volumen 1, 1a Edición, PiEB, La Paz, Bolivia, 2010)
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Conocimiento desde adentro: los afrosudamericanos hablan de sus pueblos y sus historias (Volumen 2, 1a edición, PiEB, La Paz, Bolivia, 2010)
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Conocimiento desde adentro: los afrosudamericanos hablan de sus pueblos y sus historias (2a edición, Editorial Universidad del Cauca, Popayán, Colombia, 2013)
Generando Conocimiento Desde Adentro, Barlovento, Venezuela
Esta reunión inicial en Barlovento, Venezuela, condujo al libro que coordiné, “Conocimiento desde adentro: Los afrosudamericanos hablan de sus pueblos y sus historias”. En él, los afrosudamericanos de los nueve países de habla español escribieron sobre sus propias comunidades y sus roles en sus naciones. Invité al investigador afrovenezolano Jesús Chucho García a colaborar en el proyecto que nos permitió generar este aporte pionero al conocimiento.
Conhecimento desde dentro: Os afro-sul-americanos falam de seus povos e suas histórias
Este livro é o primeiro que gera conhecimento sobre a diáspora africana sul-americana de língua espanhola "desde dentro,” da perspectiva de ativistas intelectuais afrodescendentes da Argentina, Bolívia, Colômbia, Chile, Equador, Paraguai, Peru, Uruguai e Venezuela.
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No vídeo à direita, Dra Walker compartilha com os afro-brasileiros informações sobre seus vizinhos de língua espanhola, bem como novas perspectivas de autoanálise “desde dentro.”
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Books on Spirituality in the African Diaspora & Africa
These books about African and African Diasporan spirituality began with my masters thesis that was based on library research about the phenomenon of spiritual trance in ceremonial environments, about which my subsequent field experiences led me to new interpretations. The Religious Revolution in Ivory Coast is based on my doctoral field research that allowed me to analyze the Harrist Church, a product of colonial missionary impositions, as a version of Christianity based on African values and desires. The co-edited volume African Christianity includes both more results of my research on the Harrist Church and comparative information on other versions of African Christianity elsewhere on the continent.
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Ceremonial Spirit Possession in Africa and Afro-America (E.J. Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, 1972)
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The Religious Revolution in the Ivory Coast: The Prophet Harris and the Harrist Church (University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1983)
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African Christianity: Patterns of Religious Continuity (Academic Press, New York, 1979)
My Story
I’m a recovering academic. As a cultural anthropologist I’ve written lots of scholarly articles and some books about the Global African Diaspora and its African roots.
Now I’m writing about my experiences traveling around the world learning about other cultures firsthand. My adolescent journey to live with a family in Cameroon in Central Africa on my first trip outside the United States taught me about the African heritage of my African American culture, let me know we were part of the larger African Diaspora, and put me on a path of further discovery. I’m writing a memoir about how profoundly that first stay in Africa influenced me and became the foundation of so many of my attitudes and activities.
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