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AFRI 312 on-line class > Questionnaire on Kim Butler /10 pts Due: see schedule Write your NAME: Morgan Watts Butler, Kim. 2006. “African Diaspora.” From the Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas (2 nd Edition). Colin Palmer, Editor in chief. Pp. 34-37 Detroit, Michigan: Macmillan Reference U.S.A. Instructions (on-line class) Answer the questions below in a word doc. Copy each question, then answer it in an organized, detailed and clear way. [length expected: small paragraph] Label this document with your first initial, last name, such as: C.Haas_Questionnaire_Butler.docx. and save in your course files on your computer. Back up all written work on a flashdrive. To turn in your work, copy and paste your work to the submission page (link is provided in this folder). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Seven to eight years after Collin Palmer’s challenge to better define a method for studying the African diaspora, Kim Butler contributes to this field of studies by proposing what should actually constitute a diaspora. On page 34 (right hand column) she delineates four distinguishing features that justify calling a group of people a diaspora. In a concise and brief form, list the four characteristics that she describes that are essential to be part of a diaspora . ( Butler 2006: 34) The first characteristic is the initial scattering of a specific group of people from their homeland (typically involuntary) to multiple people from their homeland to multiple locations. Then, there is usually in some way a literal or imagined homeland. Typically, each segment shares a common bond with their homeland, which separates diasporas from nomadic groups. Nomadic groups most likely do not have a homeland to associate with. Thirdly, is an awareness among the group people of their identity. Diasporic communities are consciously part of an ethno-national group – “a nation of people defined by collective ethnic, or group identity. This shared identity strengthens the bond between one to another more than their identity lying within the homeland. Lastly, and the distinguishing characteristic of a diaspora is the existence of prior identifiers but present for 2 or more generations. When this characteristic is true for a particular group yet able to return within a single generation, this group is instead considered to be “temporary exiles.”

2. How does Kim Butler deal with the difference between migrations and diasporas in her essay? ( Butler 2006: 34) Butler acknowledges that there are many migrations that may be classified as diaspora’s in African history. Based upon the fact that they included a large spread of early humans, developing societies, and movement of African traders in the middle east. She specifies specifically how the modern African diaspora rose which can be associated back to historical traumas and their aftermaths. One being the Atlantic Slave Trade, Secondly, the Indian Ocean Slave Trade and lastly the colonization of Europeans on African content. She lists the effects of each trauma and how it was directly responsible for mass movement of Africans from their homeland. 3. Based on Kim Butler's Map, where were the majority of Africans taken during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade? To the Americas, including Central and South America. It is said that during a period of nearly four centuries, from 1502 until slavery was abolished in the western hemisphere in 1888, up to 10 million Africans were taken from their homeland and became forced laborers as they arrived in America. 4. A. What is the difference between the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Indian Ocean Slave Trade? The Indian Ocean slave trade was more so the transportation of Africans from their homeland and into India, Pakistan, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Yemen, and likely as far as China. This produced a European military and commerce presence in Africa that developed in both the 19 th and 20 th century. Which led to the establishment of many diasporic communities in Europe. The Atlantic Slave Trade was more so the dependency on enslaved Africans to produce export communities, such as sugar, tobacco, and coffee through forced labor. 5. What was a common migration pattern for African descendants after the emancipation of slavery and what were the reasons for this? (see p. 36) After the liberation of slavery, this led to a great number of Africans and their descendants to relocate in pursuit of better living and economic conditions which landed in many Africans throughout the Americas, into Europe, as well as continental Africa. Skim or skip the remaining sections in the article, starting from the bottom of page 36 until the end of her article. Here Butler provides a detailed history of how the topic of the African Diaspora has played out in scholarly circles (i.e., through scholars’ ideas, writings, university programs, conferences etc.) as well as cultural movements, the work of black intellectuals and artists. If you are interested in this kind of information she does

a good job of getting at certain issues. This kind of addition to a scholarly article is often called an “intellectual history” or a *literature review” and often reflects the view of formal studies and the way institutions of higher learning, and/or society at large have historically dealt with the topic. (* Literature review often refers to scholarly writing mainly and not works of fiction.) Feel free to skim or skip over this part if you want.

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