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The black diaspora, as the
black British sociologist Paul
Gilroy argues, has succumbed
to the absolutist notions of
nationalism and cultural
difference. In academia, black
canons are constructed on
exclusively national bases:
African-American,
Anglophone, and Caribbean.
Indeed, political cultures have
not only outgrown the confines
of such ideas as "black
nationalism" but have been
remade in radically new ways
with new significance not just
for the people of the Caribbean
but for Europe, Africa, and
black America.
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