Editing African diaspora (section)

=== Social and political ===
[[File:The Negro in literature and art in the United States (1918) (14576607030).jpg|alt=Du Bois looking to the camera|thumb|20th-century American philosopher and sociologist [[W. E. B. Du Bois]] wrote extensively on the black experience in his homeland and abroad; he spent the last two years of his life in the newly independent [[Ghana]] and got citizenship there.]]
Many scholars have challenged conventional views of the African diaspora as a mere dispersion of African people. For them, it is a movement of liberation that opposes the implications of [[racialization]]. Their position assumes that Africans and their descendants abroad struggle to reclaim power over their lives through voluntary migration, cultural production and political conceptions and practices. It also implies the presence of cultures of resistance with similar objectives throughout the global diaspora. Thinkers like [[W. E. B. Dubois]] and more recently [[Robin Kelley]], for example, have argued that black politics of survival reveal more about the meaning of the African diaspora than labels of ethnicity and race, and degrees of skin hue. From this view, the daily struggle against what they call the "world-historical processes" of racial colonization, [[capitalism]], and Western domination defines blacks' links to Africa.<ref name="DECOLONIAL MOVES">{{cite journal |title = Decolonial Moves: Trans-locating African Diaspora Spaces |author = Lao-Montes, Agustín |journal = Cultural Studies |year = 2007 |volume = 21 |issue = 2–3 |pages = 309–38 |doi = 10.1080/09502380601164361 |s2cid = 143048986 }}</ref>