Introduction
1. Theorizing the cultural legacy of the African diaspora PART I Culture, Meaning, and Resistance: Cultural Expressions of the African Diaspora
2. Culinary traditions: food, memory, and survival
3. Religious legacies: faith, resistance, and world-making
4. Linguistic legacies: language as survival and resistance
5. Musical legacies I: foundations of African diasporic music – rhythm, memory, and resistance
6. Musical legacies II: global sounds of the African diaspora – migration, memory, and cultural exchange PART II Memory, Representation, and Reclamation: Literary Worlds of the African Diaspora
7.African diasporic literature: themes and narratives
8. African American literature and its evolution
9. Black Canadian voices and literary movements
10. The Caribbean: postcolonial narratives and cultural resistance
11. African voices in the European literary scene
12. Brazil and Afro-Latin American narratives and resistance PART III Image, Representation, and Reclamation: Film and Visual Cultures of the African Diaspora
13. African American cinema in the United States
14. Black Canadian filmmakers and storytelling
15. Caribbean film and its representation of diaspora realities
16. Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Latin American film movements
17. African diasporic film in Europe and Australia PART IV From Remembrance to Recognition: Legacies and Futures of the African Diaspora
18. Against erasure: honoring the past through commemoration and African diasporic memory
19. Looking back to the future: the achievements, cultural impact, and enduring legacy of the African diaspora