Personally, I lean toward “African Diaspora” because as fraught as the term “Diaspora” may be (Which diaspora? Whose diaspora?), I still feel that it is a term with more “historicity” if you will. Diaspora implies a going, and a coming, and perhaps a return. It expresses a defining fact of our collective existence in the West. We were brought here, and obliged to find a way to make these homes our own. In a way, that fact sums up the pain, dilemma, beauty, and brilliance of our story. It embraces what I consider to be the defining attribute of Blackness: the art of staying human, within a dehumanizing system.
