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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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Peoples of the African Diaspora[edit]

Current Goals[edit]

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject African diaspora: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2021-07-15

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : African Americans in film, List of black college football classics (This task is not to create the list but to create the articles that are linked on the list), Circle For Negro War Relief
Cleanup : African aesthetic, Afro-American music, Black flight,Afro-Caribbean music
Expand : Historically black colleges and universities, Islam in the African diaspora, Ring shout, Ethnic enclave, List of African-American inventors and scientists, Afro-Caribbean music
NPOV : Reparations for slavery, African Publishers Network, Crown Heights Riot
Stubs : Category:African diaspora stubs, Category:African history stubs, Category:Africa stubs, Category:African American stubs
Verify : African American, Molefi Kete Asante
Other : Upkeep of the African Diaspora project page, Article Assessments

Missing articles[edit]

Wikidata generated lists

These lists are auto-generate lists that include potential Wikipedia articles related to this WikiProject, which have articles on other Wikipedias:

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)[]

Article Assessments[edit]

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Articles assessed for quality: 96% complete

African diaspora articles by quality and importance
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FA	10	8	15	8			41
FL			2	2			4
A		1	1				2
GA	22	21	35	54		24	156
B	128	108	135	201		113	685
C	174	189	372	1,092		610	2,437
Start	309	150	441	2,361	10	1,437	4,708
Stub	35	86	117	984	12	604	1,838
List	1	4	27	68	3	90	193
Category	2			1	1,645		1,648
Disambig					7		7
File					52		52
Project					12		12
Redirect					1		1
Template				1	84		85
NA		1	1	10	122	1	135
Other				1	38		39
Assessed	681	568	1,146	4,783	1,986	2,879	12,043
Unassessed				7		488	495
Total	681	568	1,146	4,790	1,986	3,367	12,538

1.8% List-Class
17.4% Stub-Class
44.6% Start-Class
23.1% C-Class
6.5% B-Class
1.5% GA-Class
0% A-Class
0.4% FA-Class
4.7% remaining

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Deletion discussions[edit]

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Categories for discussion

12 Oct 2021 – Category:Black Marxists (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Namiba (t · c); see discussion
18 Sep 2021 – Category:African Americans shot dead by law enforcement officers in the United States (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Arms & Hearts (t · c); see discussion

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21 Oct 2021 – Naya Rivera drowning (talk · edit · hist) →Death of Naya Rivera was RfDed by TJRC (t · c); see discussion
17 Oct 2021 – Indian nation (talk · edit · hist) →Indigenous peoples of the Americas was RfDed by Hemiauchenia (t · c); see discussion
25 Sep 2021 – Big Black: Stand at Attica (talk · edit · hist) →Attica Prison riot was RfDed by Rosguill (t · c); see discussion

Files for discussion

19 Oct 2021 – File:1968-marvin-gaye-grapevine.ogg (talk · edit · hist) (on 1, 2) was FfDed by George Ho (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

22 Oct 2021 – Womanism (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by 66.154.176.39 (t · c) was closed

Recognized articles[edit]

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In the News articles[edit]

Picture of the day pictures[edit]

African man portrait Mostaert
Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowiczowa - Black girl - MP 5531 - National Museum in Warsaw
Barack Obama family portrait 2011
Barack Obama with artistic gymnastic McKayla Maroney 2
Bessie Coleman in 1923
Big White Fog
Booker T. Washington by Francis Benjamin Johnston, c. 1895
Cardiss Collins - Restoration
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
Frederick Douglass (circa 1879)
George Washington Carver c1910 - Restoration
Guion Bluford
Hester Jeffrey
Ira Aldridge as Aaron in Titus Andronicus
Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1954
Katherine Johnson at NASA, in 1966
Kobe Bryant 7144 adjusted
Malcolm X NYWTS 2a
Mary Garrity - Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Google Art Project - restoration crop
Mary Jackson working 2 - Restoration
Michelle Obama 2013 official portrait
Minstrel PosterBillyVanWare edit
Muhammad Ali NYWTS
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
Valerie L. Thomas standing with a stack of early Landsat Computer Compatible Tapes

Featured pictures[edit]

"Capt. Della H. Raney, Army Nurse Corps, who now heads the nursing staff at the station hospital at Camp Beale, CA - NARA - 535942
African man portrait Mostaert
Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowiczowa - Black girl - MP 5531 - National Museum in Warsaw
Barack Obama family portrait 2011
Barack Obama with artistic gymnastic McKayla Maroney 2
Bessie Coleman in 1923
Big White Fog
Booker T. Washington by Francis Benjamin Johnston, c. 1895
Cardiss Collins - Restoration
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
Frederick Douglass (circa 1879)
George Washington Carver c1910 - Restoration
Gilbert Studios photograph of Harriet Jacobs
Guion Bluford
Hester Jeffrey
Ira Aldridge as Aaron in Titus Andronicus
Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn Dodgers, 1954
Jeanette Scissum at Marshall Space Flight Center
Katherine Johnson 1983
Katherine Johnson at NASA, in 1966
Kobe Bryant 7144 adjusted
Malcolm X NYWTS 2a
Mary Garrity - Ida B. Wells-Barnett - Google Art Project - restoration crop
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
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
Valerie L. Thomas standing with a stack of early Landsat Computer Compatible Tapes
Vernon E. Jordan working on a voter education project

Project participants[edit]

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Stubs[edit]

Stub categories are meant for stub articles only. An article only belongs in one of the following stub categories if it is directly related to the category. Individuals should not be placed in one of these categories unless they are important to the history and/or culture of Africans, African-Americans or the African diaspora as a whole. Instead they should be placed according to their nationality and or profession. The number of stub categories should be as minimal as possible.

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Resources[edit]

Digitized books[edit]

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[edit]

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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