Life and Death in the African Diaspora:
a Celebration of the Humanities

• Programs offered April 20-23, 2005
  Sponsored by the Cleveland State University Department of History in partnership with the Black Studies Program, the Office of Minority Affairs & Community Relations, and others. Dr. Regennia N. Williams, Project Director.
  
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"The historical forces and events that gave rise to the populations of African-descended Americans constitute one of the most dramatic and complex developments in human history. The contact between Africa and the Americas has resulted in the emergence of a people, particularly in the United States of America, whose legacy has been a historic struggle for human rights, socioeconomic development and collective survival." (Floyd W. Hayes, III)

The programs in the "Life and Death in the African Diaspora” series are part of an ongoing collaboration between Cleveland State University and John Carroll University. The purpose of this collaboration is to celebrate and promote the study of the humanities. The series highlights recent works on the histories and cultures of African-descended peoples and strategies used to ensure their collective survival on the continent of Africa and throughout the Diaspora.

Links to related websites

The Diaspora in General
• AfriGeneas: African Ancestored Genealogy resources
• Afro-Louisiana History & Genealogy (Dr. Midlo Hall’s free version of the database)
  • About Dr. Hall’s database
• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents on Slavery
• In Motion: the African-American Migration Experience
• Slave Movement During the 18th & 19th Centuries (online data archive)
• Slaveship (digital video, 54 min.)

Historic African American Burial Practices

• African-American Cemeteries
• African Burial Ground (New York City)
  • www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_es_burial_ground.htm
  • “African Burial Ground Traveling Exhibit” brochure
• Cheering the Ancestors Home: African Ideograms in African American Cemeteries, by Rachel Malcolm-Woods
• Grave Matters: the Preservation of African-American Cemeteries
• Homegoing: African American Cemetery Culture, by Marta Jones

Cleveland State University History Department, African Diaspora Certificate Program

• Basic Information About the Certificate, which involves courses on the history of Africa and Africans in the Atlantic world, focusing especially on this theme in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean.