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BEGINNINGS: THE AFRO-CARIBBEAN DIASPORA, AUTHORS, THEMES AND TROPES

ABSTRACT

Roots, survivals, routes, creolization, rhizome and collective memory; all these words are also analytical metaphors historically mobilized to translate blackeness in the Afro-Atlantic diaspora(s). That said, the objective of this article is to begin/present how different traditions of thought and Antillean intellectuals have approached the troup that delimits the studies of the African diaspora, identity. I conclude the text with the development of one more possible analytical metaphor in order to think about the African presence in the Caribbean, perhaps, in the Afro-Atlantic world: the prism and the kaleidoscope.

Keywords:
Identity; Afro-atlantic Diaspora; Caribbean/Antillean Social Thought; Kaleidoscope

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