Summary

The essays assembled in Crossing Boundaries reflect the international dimensions, commonalities, and discontinuities in the histories of diasporan communities of color. People of African descent in the the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean share a common set of experiences: domination and resistance, slavery and emancipation, the pursuit of freedom, and struggle against racism. Knowledge of individual societies is illuminated by the study and comparison of other cultural histories; Black diasporan experience cannot be captured in a single interpretation. Crossing Boundaries elucidates the complexities inherent in teaching a history which is at once disparate and coherent. This volume, growing out of the Comparative History of Black People in Diaspora Symposium held at Michigan State University, elaborates the profound relationship between curriculum and pedagogy. 

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About the Author(s)

Darlene Clark Hine is John A. Hannah Professor of History at Michigan State University. She is co-editor of Hine Sight: Black Women and the Re-Construction of American History, co-author of A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America, and co-editor of More than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas.

Jacqueline A. McLeod is completing her Ph. D. degree in Comparative Black History at Michigan State University. She holds a J.D. degree from the University of Toledo College of Law.