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WikiProject African diaspora aims to improve all articles related to the cultural contributions of people of African descent all over the world. The African diaspora is the story of how Africans, though scattered and dispersed, managed to preserve cultural traditions while, at the same time, creating new identities influenced by new homelands in places outside Africa.

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Black suffrage in the United States - there should be an article discussing which states, before the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, gave blacks the right to vote, and when and with what conditions, if any. Note that the right was taken away in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. deisenbe (talk) 09:40, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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African diaspora articles by quality and importance
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Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	10	8	16	16		5	55
FL			2	3		1	6
A				2			2
GA	29	25	52	97		35	238
B	135	140	191	504		270	1,240
C	210	206	451	2,162	2	1,290	4,321
Start	264	170	498	4,314	14	3,158	8,418
Stub	27	72	94	1,415	5	1,627	3,240
List	2	8	31	125	2	132	300
Category					3,717		3,717
Disambig				1	12		13
File					95		95
Project					14		14
Redirect	1	8	8	48	250		315
Template					135		135
NA		1		2	3		6
Other					72		72
Assessed	678	638	1,343	8,689	4,321	6,518	22,187
Unassessed						2	2
Total	678	638	1,343	8,689	4,321	6,520	22,189
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 83,031			Ω = 4.74

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24.2% C-Class
7% B-Class
1.3% GA-Class
0% A-Class
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1899 poster of Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones
African man portrait Mostaert
Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowiczowa - Black girl - MP 5531 - National Museum in Warsaw
Art Tatum, Vogue Room 1948 (Gottlieb)
Barack Obama family portrait 2011
Bessie Coleman in 1923
Big White Fog
Booker T. Washington by Francis Benjamin Johnston, c. 1895
Cabinet Card of Sojourner Truth - Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Cardiss Collins - Restoration
Carl Van Vechten - Shirley Graham Du Bois
Cicatrices de flagellation sur un esclave
Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mathew Ahmann in a crowd.) - NARA - 542015 - Restoration
Don Lemon at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes
Edmonia Lewis by Henry Rocher
Edward Alexander Bouchet Yale College class of 1874
Edward Mitchell Bannister by Gustine L. Hurd
Frederick Douglass (circa 1879)
George Washington Carver c1910 - Restoration
Gilbert Studios photograph of Harriet Jacobs
Guion Bluford
Henry Highland Garnet by James U. Stead
Hester Jeffrey
Ike & Tina Turner, Bestanddeelnr 924-2170 - Restoration
Ira Aldridge as Aaron in Titus Andronicus
Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1954
Jeanette Scissum at Marshall Space Flight Center
John Campbell Dancy, Recorder of Deeds, Washington, D.C.
Katherine Johnson 1983
Katherine Johnson at NASA, in 1966
Kobe Bryant 7144 adjusted
Malcolm X NYWTS 2a
Marian Anderson
Mary Garrity - Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Google Art Project - restoration crop
Mary Jackson 1979 Portrait (LRC-1979-B701 P-07085)
Mary Jackson working 2 - Restoration
Michelle Obama 2013 official portrait
Minstrel PosterBillyVanWare edit
Mrs. Constance B. Motley, first woman Senator, 21st Senatorial District, N.Y., raising hand in V sign
Muhammad Ali NYWTS
Nathan Francis Mossell (1856-1946), M.D. 1882, portrait photograph by H.D. Carns & Co; Image ID 27593990
Portrait of Pearl Bailey as Butterfly in St. Louis Woman
Ronald McNair, Guion Bluford, and Fred Gregory (S79-36529, restoration)
Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after being arrested on February 22, 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Sgt Major Christian Fleetwood - American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient - Restoration
Sojourner Truth, 1870 (cropped, restored)
Tuskegee airman2
USA declaration independence
United States Declaration of Independence
United States President Barack Obama bends down to allow the son of a White House staff member to touch his head
Valerie L. Thomas standing with a stack of early Landsat Computer Compatible Tapes
Vernon E. Jordan working on a voter education project
W.E.B. Du Bois by James E. Purdy, 1907
Walter Francis White by Clara Sipprell
William Harvey Carney by James E Reed - Restoration

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"Capt. Della H. Raney, Army Nurse Corps, who now heads the nursing staff at the station hospital at Camp Beale, CA - NARA - 535942
1899 poster of Mme. M. Sissieretta Jones
African man portrait Mostaert
Amanda Berry Smith by T. B. Latchmore
Angela Davis in a half-length portrait by Bernard Gotfryd - crop
Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowiczowa - Black girl - MP 5531 - National Museum in Warsaw
Art Tatum, Vogue Room 1948 (Gottlieb)
Barack Obama family portrait 2011
Bessie Coleman in 1923
Big White Fog
Booker T. Washington by Francis Benjamin Johnston, c. 1895
Cabinet Card of Sojourner Truth - Collection of the National Museum of African American History and Culture
Cardiss Collins - Restoration
Carl Van Vechten - Shirley Graham Du Bois
Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. (Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mathew Ahmann in a crowd.) - NARA - 542015 - Restoration
Composer Florence Price (cropped)
Don Lemon at the 2018 Pulitzer Prizes
Edmonia Lewis by Henry Rocher
Edward Alexander Bouchet Yale College class of 1874
Edward Mitchell Bannister by Gustine L. Hurd
Frederick Douglass (circa 1879)
George Washington Carver c1910 - Restoration
Gilbert Studios photograph of Harriet Jacobs
Guion Bluford
Henry Highland Garnet by James U. Stead
Hester Jeffrey
Ike & Tina Turner, Bestanddeelnr 924-2170 - Restoration
Ira Aldridge as Aaron in Titus Andronicus
Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1954
Jeanette Scissum at Marshall Space Flight Center
John Campbell Dancy, Recorder of Deeds, Washington, D.C.
Katherine Johnson 1983
Katherine Johnson at NASA, in 1966
Kobe Bryant 7144 adjusted
Malcolm X NYWTS 2a
Marian Anderson
Mary Church Terrell - cph.3b47842
Mary Garrity - Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Google Art Project - restoration crop
Mary Jackson 1979 Portrait (LRC-1979-B701 P-07085)
Mary Jackson working 2 - Restoration
Mary White Ovington
Michelle Obama 2013 official portrait
Minstrel PosterBillyVanWare edit
Mrs. Constance B. Motley, first woman Senator, 21st Senatorial District, N.Y., raising hand in V sign
Muhammad Ali NYWTS
Nathan Francis Mossell (1856-1946), M.D. 1882, portrait photograph by H.D. Carns & Co; Image ID 27593990
Portrait of Pearl Bailey as Butterfly in St. Louis Woman
Ronald McNair, Guion Bluford, and Fred Gregory (S79-36529, restoration)
Rosa Parks being fingerprinted by Deputy Sheriff D.H. Lackey after being arrested on February 22, 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Scourged back by McPherson & Oliver, 1863, retouched
Sgt Major Christian Fleetwood - American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient - Restoration
Sojourner Truth, 1870 (cropped, restored)
Thomas Mundy Peterson by William R. Tobias
Tuskegee airman2
USA declaration independence
United States Declaration of Independence
United States President Barack Obama bends down to allow the son of a White House staff member to touch his head
Valerie L. Thomas standing with a stack of early Landsat Computer Compatible Tapes
Vernon E. Jordan working on a voter education project
W.E.B. Du Bois by James E. Purdy, 1907
Walter Francis White by Clara Sipprell
William Harvey Carney by James E Reed - Restoration

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Cicatrices de flagellation sur un esclave

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Resources

Digitized books

Okpewho, Isidore; Nzegwu, Nkiru (2009). The new African diaspora. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253353375.
Olaniyan, Tejumola; Sweet, James H (2010). The African Diaspora and the Disciplines. Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780253354648.
Hine, Darlene Clark; Danielle Keaton, Trica; Small, Stephen (2009). Black Europe and the African diaspora. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252076572.
Davies, Carole Boyce (2008). Encyclopedia of the African diaspora: origins, experiences and culture, Volume 1. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9781851097005.
Wisdom, Tettey; Puplampu, Korbla P (2005). The African diaspora in Canada: negotiating identity & belonging. University of Calgary Press. ISBN 1552381757.
Olliz-Boyd, Antonio (2010). The Latin American Identity and the African Diaspora: Ethnogenesis in Context. Cambria Press. ISBN 9781604977042.
Carter, Donald Martin (2010). Navigating the African Diaspora: The Anthropology of Invisibility. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 9780816647774.
Conyers, Jr, James L (2009). Racial structure and radical politics in the African diaspora. London : Transaction. ISBN 978-1412810456.
Curry, Dawne Y; Duke, Eric D; Smith, Marshanda A (2009). Extending the diaspora : new histories of Black people. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252034596.
Arthur, John A (2008). The African diaspora in the United States and Europe: the Ghanaian experience. Ashgate. ISBN 9781409491224.

Web pages

MoAD - The Museum of the African Diaspora
Afro-Europe - The blog relating to all things Afro-European and black Europe
Afropolitans - The blog on the cosmopolitan community of African ancestry
Racism and the Law - Considers race, racism and racial distinctions in the law. It examines the role of domestic and international law in promoting and/or alleviating racism.

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