Christine Cynn and Kim F. Hall,
"Introduction"
(page 5 of 5)
"Rewriting Dispersal" is very much tied to its conditions of
production: it originated from conversations between the Africana
Studies Program at Barnard College and the Barnard Center for Research
on Women (BCRW). Despite claims of inclusivity within and beyond the
academy, all too frequently women of color, particularly women of the
African diaspora, disappear in discussions of "women" or evocations of
"sisterhood." Many Africana studies and black studies programs have thus
struggled over issues of gender, even as they evolve to reflect
scholarly growth in African diaspora studies. As Noliwe Rooks noted in
the 1990s, a number of African-American and black studies programs
transformed into Africana or black diaspora (160-61), a change that
reflects an increased focus on diaspora as process and an
acknowledgement of the differences between peoples within the black
diaspora, even while maintaining a commitment to social change advanced
by the study of race, black lives, and black culture. It is a welcome
mark of our progress that we were invited by BCRW to develop this volume
as one way to make visible the necessary institutional and intellectual
links between women's/gender studies and African diaspora studies. The
Ford Foundation's Difficult Dialogues Initiative also provided crucial
funding for the effort. We hope that electronic fora committed to
transnational dialogue, such as The Scholar & Feminist Online, can
become important venues for the "global" rethinking of the relation
between gender, sexuality, and African diaspora.
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