Frontiers of African Diaspora Studies
FADS, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026, pp.8-13.
Print ISSN: 3107-1805; Online ISSN: 3107-1813
Journal homepage: https://www.fadsjournal.com
DOI: https://doi.org/10.64058/FADS.26.01.02relct
Carolyn Calloway-Thomas
Abstract: This inaugural editorial in Frontiers of African Diaspora Studies journal highlights the impetus for the beginning of the discipline of Africana Studies, its impact, and promise for the future. The piece discusses the significance of Frontiers, China’s inaugural academic journal. Using a global platform, the journal is dedicated to publishing excellent, rich articles that provide a framework for understanding what happens when we view diasporic Africa through the intellectual cartography of China and other places, and beyond essentialism. The author argues further that Frontiers ushers in new and different epistemic ways of examining the consequences of African exile and homeland through a more spacious aperture, featuring articles that are written from diverse perspectives such as poetics, history, culture, communication, music, literature, sociology, and other forms of human expression.
Keywords: African American Studies, Africana Studies, exile, Diaspora, culture, language, geography
Author Biography: Carolyn Calloway-Thomas （corresponding author）, Ph.D.; Professor and Director of Graduate Studies; Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana USA; Intercultural Communication Competence (ICC) Advisory Expert; World Council on Intercultural and Global Competence; Past President, World Communication Association and International Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers of African Diaspora Studies; Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of African and Afro-Diaspora Studies at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. E-mail: calloway@iu.edu.
题目：重塑认识论图景：非洲流散研究中的跨文化转向与人类福祉
摘要：《非洲流散研究前沿》创刊社论梳理了非洲研究学科创立的动因、发展影响与未来展望。本文阐释了这本中国首份非洲流散研究学术期刊的创刊意义。该期刊立足全球视野，致力于刊发优质、内容详实的学术论文，构建全新研究框架：跳出本质主义思维，依托中国及世界各地的知识图谱，解读非洲流散现象。作者进一步提出，《非洲流散研究前沿》以更开阔的研究视角，开创了审视非洲流亡与故土议题的全新认知范式。期刊收录的文章兼具多元研究维度，涵盖诗学、历史学、文化学、传播学、音乐、文学、社会学及其他人类文化表达领域。
关键词：非裔美国人研究；非洲研究；流亡；流散；文化；语言；地理
作者介绍：卡洛琳·卡洛威-托马斯（通讯作者），博士，美国印第安纳大学伯明顿校区美国非裔与非洲流散研究系教授、博士生导师、研究生部主任；前世界传播学会主席、世界跨文化与全球能力理事会跨文化沟通能力顾问，担任《非洲流散研究前沿》国际主编和电子科技大学外语学院非洲及非洲流散研究所特聘研究员。电子邮箱：calloway@iu.edu
