Black Atlantic

E280514

cultural concept diaspora studies concept theoretical framework transnational space

Black Atlantic refers to the transnational cultural, historical, and political space shaped by the movements, experiences, and creative expressions of African-descended peoples across Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Black Atlantic canonical	2
Black Atlantic culture	1
Black Atlantic identity	1
Black Atlantic literature	1
Black Atlantic studies	1
The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness	1

Statements (71)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural concept ⓘ diaspora studies concept ⓘ theoretical framework ⓘ transnational space ⓘ
associatedWithDiscipline	African diaspora studies ⓘ African American studies ⓘ surface form: Black studies cultural studies ⓘ history ⓘ literary studies ⓘ musicology ⓘ postcolonial studies ⓘ sociology ⓘ
contrastsWith	methodological nationalism ⓘ
coreIdea	challenge to nation-centered understandings of culture ⓘ double consciousness in a transnational frame ⓘ emphasis on hybridity and cultural mixing ⓘ focus on modernity and racial capitalism ⓘ focus on slavery and the transatlantic slave trade ⓘ interconnection of Africa, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe ⓘ transnational circulation of African-descended peoples and cultures ⓘ
critiquedFor	Anglophone and North Atlantic bias ⓘ limited attention to gender ⓘ underemphasizing continental African perspectives ⓘ
emphasizes	Black political thought as transnational ⓘ circulation of ideas, people, and cultural forms ⓘ maritime and oceanic connections ⓘ routes over roots ⓘ
focusesOn	Black cultural production across borders ⓘ interlinked histories of Black communities ⓘ political struggles against slavery, colonialism, and racism ⓘ
geographicScope	Africa ⓘ Caribbean ⓘ Europe ⓘ North America ⓘ South America ⓘ
hasPrimaryTheorist	Paul Gilroy ⓘ
historicalBasis	20th-century Black political movements ⓘ Middle Passage ⓘ abolitionist movements ⓘ colonialism in Africa and the Caribbean ⓘ plantation slavery in the Americas ⓘ post-emancipation migrations ⓘ transatlantic slave trade ⓘ
includesCulturalForm	Black Atlantic self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Black Atlantic literature Black Atlantic music ⓘ Black Atlantic political movements ⓘ Black Atlantic religious practices ⓘ Black Atlantic visual art ⓘ
influenced	Afro-Atlantic religious studies ⓘ Black European studies ⓘ studies of Atlantic world history ⓘ subsequent diaspora theory ⓘ
influencedBy	C. L. R. James ⓘ Frantz Fanon ⓘ Stuart Hall ⓘ W. E. B. Du Bois ⓘ
isCentralThemeOf	Black Atlantic self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness
keyTheme	cosmopolitanism ⓘ creolization ⓘ cultural resistance ⓘ diaspora identity formation ⓘ memory of slavery ⓘ migration and displacement ⓘ racialization and racism ⓘ
relatedConcept	African diaspora ⓘ Afro-modernity ⓘ Atlantic world ⓘ Black internationalism ⓘ Pan-Africanism ⓘ diasporic public sphere ⓘ
temporalScope	from early modern period to the present ⓘ

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

African diaspora → associatedWith → Black Atlantic ⓘ

Jamaican → culturalInfluence → Black Atlantic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Black Atlantic culture

Black Atlantic → isCentralThemeOf → Black Atlantic self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

Black Atlantic → includesCulturalForm → Black Atlantic self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Black Atlantic literature

Banjo → hasInfluenceOn → Black Atlantic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Black Atlantic studies

Afro-Caribbean culture → associatedWith → Black Atlantic ⓘ

this entity surface form: Black Atlantic identity

Afro-Caribbean culture → relatedConcept → Black Atlantic ⓘ