PART 1: The Slave Trade, Slavery and Contemporary Migrations: Experiencing the Diaspora
1. The Slave Trade as a Founding Event
2. Dispersion to an Impossible Elsewhere: Slavery and Its Legacy
3. The Second Stratum of the Diaspora: Contemporary Migrations and Reactualisation of Old Relationships
PART 2: Can One Diaspora Hide Another?
4. Three Theories on the Black Cultural Universe of the Americas
5. A Variable Research Object? The Example of the Family Institution Viewed Through Three Theses on the African-American World
6. Three Concepts of the Diaspora Corresponding to Three Theses on the African-American Cultural Universe
PART 3: The Black Diaspora: Articulating Experiences and Theories
7. The Resource of the Ancestral Land: Pan-Africanism and Black Nationalism as Projects of a Durable Unity
8. Community Plurality or the A-Centred Community
9. Rastafari: An Allegorical Figure of the A-Centred Community
Conclusion: Out of the Caribbean: For a Reformulated Model of the Diaspora