Word: diasporas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called Mandela a political prisoner and denounced a government in which the white minority oppressed a black majority. Yet I could never really understand my mother's anger towards the political leadership of South Africa nor her soliloquies on the importance of negritude and the relationships within the African Diaspora. Sure, I was black, but those black people in Africa were different than I was. I could not connect their experience to my own as a black pre-teen who could go anywhere and say anything that I chose. It seemed to me that black people had taken...
...Irish government failed to perceive the deep affinity emigres hold for their homeland or recognize the diverse notions of Irishness which existed within the diaspora, Robinson said. In contrast to countries like Israel, which had successfully built ties with Jews abroad, the Irish government had not looked to "the array of people outside Ireland for whom this island is a place of origin...
Robinson made it a priority during her presidency to foster and cherish this diaspora and its inherent diversity, according to Vargo...
...President Robinson successfully reached out to Ireland's diaspora, as no president before her had done," Vargo says...
Robinson dedicated the first American memorial of the famine at Cambridge Common last summer, in front of about 3,000 of Ireland's diaspora...