THE GLOBAL EXPERIENCE OF BEING BLACK
This webliography addresses the question: What is the African Diaspora?
What does it mean to be Black in the world today? Who is Black? What is the relationship between being Black and having a specific nationality, language, or parents? What does "race" (biology) have to do with it?
This 285-link, 82-plus-country look at the global Black experience includes data, culture, youthful self-expression. One new genre is young Black women profiling countries on their own Youtube channels — insightful and fun.
I put this together in April 2020 for a project on Black Studies in the African Diaspora, looking by and large outside the US and outside the African continent. It is online at http://alkalimat.org/global/ and will be updated for at least a few months. Thanks for your additions so far. More are welcome. Write to mcworter@illinois.edu.
GENERAL
- http://slaveryandremembrance.org/
- https://minorityrights.org/
- https://sites.google.com/site/afropedia/afropedia-home/content-list/countries
- https://ibw21.org/commentary/report-on-the-afro-descendants-gathering-in-venezuela/
- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5HlSf1XMeObrxeer3LdmKw
- https://www.afritopic.com/mag/afritopic-african-diaspora.htm
- https://www.caar-web.org/home/
- http://afroeurope.blogspot.com/
EUROPE
Austria
- https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/africaatlse/2019/04/12/lifting-the-veil-on-afro-austrians/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFlMTj6eiTs
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaEp8cmC54k
Belgium
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPJ-QiVqliE
- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/world/europe/belgium-pierre-kompany-congo.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYxWXdFBykw
Czech Republic
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIxiKWArFxw
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyFOS-tLSLU
- https://www.radio.cz/en/section/czech-life/the-black-experience-in-the-czech-republic
Denmark
- https://www.humanrights.dk/sites/humanrights.dk/files/media/dokumenter/udgivelser/equal_treatment_2017/afrodanskere_web.pdf
- https://www.scandinaviastandard.com/a-brief-history-of-jazz-in-copenhagen/
Finland
- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-49543502
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Finnish_people_of_African_descent
France
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrRzyh7HRJ4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNiWNfzP1sw
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people_in_France
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sKTT9Nwa5c
- https://tiltingaxis.org/biographies/florence-alexis-1
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S95dr4dskwc
- http://www.blackparistour.com/
Germany
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcfPVj5qR1E
- https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-afrogerman-experience_b_9234700
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HsyUc6lfc4
- http://isdonline.de/
- http://www.black-international-cinema.com/
- http://afrogermans.us/
- https://www.facebook.com/BlackMediaCongressBerlin/
- https://www.aaihs.org/remembering-afro-german-intellectual-may-ayim/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIcb_Uh3ciY
Greece
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WCOTDpIj0c
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL619VdzafE
- https://gr.boell.org/en/2015/10/21/african-immigrants-greece
Hungary
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hungarian_people_of_African_descent
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_9OA-GtgbY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3WSKpQefa8
Iceland
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhAviCZYu0A
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWVbzXgkHDw
- https://grapevine.is/mag/interview/2019/01/04/being-black-in-iceland-an-interview-with-jewells-chambers/
Ireland
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC_CpnwZPYM
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOXACDOidco
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people_in_Ireland
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeEF8Eqkcq8
Italy
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAf6YUPIKck
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/sep/16/italy-must-face-racist-history
Norway
Poland
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Polish
- https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2005-10-16-0510150186-story.html
- http://afryka.org/download/raport2015/raporteng.pdf
- http://no-racism.net/article/3401/
- http://www.irr.org.uk/news/no-justice-for-maxwell-itoya/
Portugal
Russia
- https://originalpeople.org/alexander-pushkin-father-russian-literature/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srQ29HZJdlY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_TV5vctEog
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzxDAD0qRaU
- http://afroeurope.blogspot.com/2011/02/black-people-in-russia-yelena-khanga.html
- https://www.calvertjournal.com/features/show/5388/red-africa-afrorussians-black-ussr-portraits-generation-identity
- http://afroeurope.blogspot.com/2013/01/book-black-russian-story-of-frederick.html
Spain
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Spaniards
- https://www.thelocal.es/20190806/the-afro-spanish-experience-no-one-is-talking-about
Scotland
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5AK6UA2wSk
- https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-24347632
Sweden
Switzerland
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_immigrants_to_Switzerland
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYUoYCZx68c
Turkey
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40wOd1learo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZuq10CpJlY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9rlPiNVtKg
United Kingdom
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq9OpJYck7Y
- https://www.georgepadmoreinstitute.org/
- https://blackculturalarchives.org/
- https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/news/2019/may/professor-paul-gilroy-appointed-founding-director-centre-study-race-racism
- https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/international-slavery-museum
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a48wYh8lAzg
- https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-39927255
See also Scotland above
NORTH/CENTRAL/SOUTH AMERICA
Argentina
- https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/14/travel/argentina-rediscovers-its-african-roots.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6536IZD1f90
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuUMssU2Sg4
Belize
Bolivia
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPdJkVzBd6c
- https://www.democracynow.org/2020/4/14/headlines/calls_mount_for_release_of_afro_bolivian_coca_union_leader_elena_flores
- https://minorityrights.org/minorities/afro-bolivians/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnDLzdovEJk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4D6cZkP7dk
Brazil
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXAFHmxW-2Q
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7DGH9t6fCo
- https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Brazils-Black-Workers-Earn-329-Less-Than-White-Workers-Study-20180515-0017.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Kv7JsatBc
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh7c46U5hhY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zNfj5-Mszg
Canada
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Canadians
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORW_e8P8RcY
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIe1WQe2Cx0
- http://www.blackhistorysociety.ca/?fbclid=IwAR2pg2AsmSy9VaGa_1qgLY57dEOIHlv-_SEoeWWLsU3gx6ad9ZIBXxOk6wg
- https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/black-history-month.html
See also Nova Scotia below
Colombia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Colombians
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRHOOZLbA9Q
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gaXfr9WNwo
Costa Rica
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Costa_Ricans
- https://face2faceafrica.com/article/the-intricate-history-of-black-costa-ricans-who-were-only-recognised-as-citizens-in-1949
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmdQMWLwK-w
- https://ticotimes.net/2016/08/29/elegance-quince-duncan-chat-celebrated-writer
Ecuador
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Ecuadorians
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9gO_mPL6Qc
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vq-V7Uf9Xk
El Salvador
- http://ahorasecreto.blogspot.com/2014/02/el-salvadors-black-history.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9l97DJ1b1M
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g303272-d4377292-Reviews-Afro_Brasileiro_Museum-Salvador_State_of_Bahia.html
Guyana
- https://www.refworld.org/docid/469f3893c.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2A7XtysCt8
- https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=390671281767926
Honduras
- https://kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.com/2012/10/african-descendants-in-honduras-afro.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rwG80NlkIo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LM2qAQ2GDA
Mexico
- https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/mexico/articles/the-untold-history-of-afro-mexicans-mexicos-forgotten-ethnic-group/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOU4HPO47t4
- https://remezcla.com/culture/a-student-traveling-through-costa-chica-picked-up-a-camera-to-let-afro-mexicans-tell-their-story/
- https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/30/world/enslaved-african-history-trans-atlantic-slave-trade-trnd-scn/index.html
Nicaragua
- https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/bluefields-nicaragua/
- https://kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.com/2012/11/african-descendants-in-nicaragua-afro.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSHXwHzBD1E
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OUvJ5du8Es
Nova Scotia
- https://ansa.novascotia.ca/video
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Nova_Scotians
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocneWy64B4g
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_omTtacefk
- https://www.aaihs.org/the-1917-halifax-explosion-and-structural-anti-blackness-in-times-of-crisis/
See also Canada above
Panama
- http://www.afropanamanian.com/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFDBKyBBmgs
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Panamanians
Paraguay
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op4-nZypCQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMBBgRJ8dtk
- https://owaahh.com/the-kamba-of-paraguay/
Peru
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOATek8iof4
- https://www.kuodatravel.com/background-afro-peruvian-history-influence-peruvian-culture-today/
- https://www.okayafrica.com/census-to-count-afro-peruvians/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCutB5m_NAo
Surinam
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Surinamese_people
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjdTQzxuBmQ
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDS9Xf0_8no
Uruguay
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BE0dMtKDJs
- https://www.pambazuka.org/governance/afro-uruguay-brief-history
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UtTJ3hJe44
Venezuela
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3cforZoJWA
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC_NvL8dHmE
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Venezuelans
- https://therealnews.com/stories/the-black-working-class-and-venezuela-fighting-the-same-enemy
ASIA
Cambodia
- https://www.pinterest.com/pin/473370610809210471/
- https://www.phnompenhpost.com/7days/beneath-skin-reality-being-black-cambodia
China
- https://thediplomat.com/2019/07/the-evolution-of-afro-chinese-identity/
- https://social.shorthand.com/gwazarma/3g14NDAPpc/the-chinese-african-kids-and-identity-crisis-by-ilelah-balarabe-shehu
India
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djuAvmn37ug
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ped-uIlw_24
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtrSYxmZFHg
Indonesia
- https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/east-african-refugees-make-indefinite-home-themselves-indonesia
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcLVpxG1-gg
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jlyh9SlUS0
Japan
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsXbOxTgCCo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXBsFfnCOks
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KMO02xxX1g
- https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/black-studies-association-kokujin-kenkyu-no-kai-japan/"
- https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-34550264
Pakistan
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YByNHdqzUX0
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddi
- https://www.sheedi199.com/2018/10/blacks-in-pakistan-afro-pakistanis.html
- https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/sheedi-afro-pakistani.549609/
Philippines
- https://face2faceafrica.com/article/these-native-africans-were-the-original-inhabitants-of-the-philippines
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nJnn2d2XVw
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7lVw4KhKO4
South Korea
- https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/02/15/koreans-black-people_n_14771318.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meZ8iFxbxZc
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8gM8QkWlTY
- https://greenhearttravel.org/blog/teach-abroad-south-korea/being-black-in-south-korea
Sri Lanka
- http://www.afrikansrilankans.weebly.com
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXvLYV9MZLI
- http://www.bordermovement.com/kaffir-culture/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kl7nJZSi_0
Vietnam
- https://blackfilmcenterarchive.wordpress.com/2012/04/25/afro-vietnamese-orphans-tell-their-stories-in-indochina-traces-of-a-mother/
- http://www.mixedracestudies.org/?tag=afro-vietnamese
OCEANIA
Australia
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Australians
- https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/02/black-lives-matter-in-australia-wherever-black-people-are-there-is-racism-and-resistance
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81z8FpERzr4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIVTi-nuFiA
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sl82VMuuKI0
Hawaii
Melanesia (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, West Papua and Papua)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RRlRlPf3lA
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RvjP1AC-bE
- https://kwekudee-tripdownmemorylane.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-melanesian-africans-of-solomon.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8hMePwbPlc
See also Papua New Guinea below
New Zealand
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23lMjIeRU6Y
- https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/new-zealands-racist-and-discriminatory-africa-middle-east-refugee-policy-scrapped
- https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11599618
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deqV2BMPh78
Papua New Guinea
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Y5rC7kDx3o
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Gh7c9ueCU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6KjhyIoSTg
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tg0ipCdiQQ&list=PLUB2jYhyT3ez4tcXgNKEG2OqdAhe4bUBT&index=152
See also Melanesia above
CARIBBEAN
Barbados
- https://africanholocaust.net/african-influences-barbados/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Barbadians
- https://barbados.org/barbados-traditions.htm#.Xo8fqkF7ldg
- http://slaveryandremembrance.org/partners/partner/?id=P0026
Cuba
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_OzkISsyDo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHi5qzHANwk
- https://originalpeople.org/black-cubans-discrimination/
- https://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/00000144-0a22-d3cb-a96c-7b2febdc0000
Grenada
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUMMJhOdsOg
- https://www.nowgrenada.com/2019/08/ifa-african-spiritual-system-takes-root-in-grenada/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7MtydR-fiI
Haiti
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOGVgQYX6SU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ4C2sUOmm8
- https://originalpeople.org/1945-footage-of-haitian-voodoo-ceremonies/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyfGJMr4bX8
Jamaica
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-US3_OxhEsk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGMWDxPJ3Hk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCFLgdhZLEU
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TI9Z-TcCGC4
- https://www.change.org/p/eleanor-wint-ph-d-h-e-louise-bennett-coverley-to-be-the-next-national-hero-of-jamaica?recruiter=943341884
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kwjcnunRik
Martinique
- https://vimeo.com/141714016
- https://vimeo.com/141722598
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTNVe_BAELY&list=RDaTNVe_BAELY&start_radio=1&t=188
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjbkwM-EMog
Puerto Rico
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Puerto_Ricans
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmcJMVJt6zo
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTf7sjwd9vY
- https://pulitzercenter.org/reporting/watch-father-daughter-lawyer-duo-fights-rights-black-residents-puerto-rico
- https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/2/11/1737469/-Black-History-Month-Loiza-the-African-heart-of-Puerto-Rico-and-the-arts-that-portray-it
Trinidad & Tobago
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Trinidadians_and_Tobagonians
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfWWRCSzOs0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQmG_VHFbK4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SG8FrECkxMI
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEk3HoM0tE8
MIDDLE EAST
Iran
- https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3pz7wx
- https://ajammc.com/2015/07/20/picturing-them-vs-us-race-and-afro-iranians-in-documentary-photography/
- https://roadsandkingdoms.com/2018/forgotten-africans-iran/
- https://www.middleeasteye.net/features/we-are-iranians-rediscovering-history-african-slavery-iran
Iraq
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-Iraqis
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8-JiZlfTyA
- http://www.ipsnews.net/2011/10/to-be-black-in-iraq/
- https://medium.com/culture-shock-sundays/1-5-million-afro-iraqis-8b2a5882b69e
Israel
- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/19/-sp-african-migrants-speak-out-about-life-in-israel-detention-centres-holot
- https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/b42ad8800bc449aaa415e05a8087bbe6
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl2xJHNkFGk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiL7w486-UI
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TQBWCkmN7s
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imLS7SQU5ko
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dud4eG-gVI0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puRXEPHrs2M
Jordan
- https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/posts/constructions-of-black-identities-within-jordan
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OWIEb5HABE
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okpYhQ7Kje0
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K5k3-5kedc
Lebanon
- https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/north-africa-west-asia/where-are-my-rights-african-refugees-vs-unhcr-in-lebanon/
- https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeraworld/2015/10/lebanon-africa-151027114653139.html
- https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jul/05/kenyan-domestic-worker-assaulted-by-mob-lebanon-deportation
- https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/we-want-help-african-asylum-seekers-denounce-unhcr-inaction-lebanon
Oman
Palestine
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOnL80yhiko
- https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/03/afro-palestinians-talk-heritage-resistance-170329072425883.html
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UtebIAF3dI
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsnv8TJsaQk
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl87Vsx1AwI
Saudi Arabia
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OssSTAFPCJc
- https://www.arabnews.com/node/1256666/saudi-arabia
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVoZjpi-lh4
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uxy6S_Eifo
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Saudi_Arabian_people_of_African_descent