Thematically this issue centers representation and responsiveness of state entities. The three articles featured offer distinctive methodological approaches to understanding community and representation throughout the diaspora. Our first article “From Complexity to Clarity: A Network Approach to Better Understanding Issues on a Black- Interest Agenda” by Periloux Peay and John Rackey seeks to uncover trends that members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) use to discuss, define, and prioritize issues on their agenda and if they approach these issues as interconnected, multidimensional, and complex. As you read the article please appreciate the detailed social network analysis incorporated to examine the context and effort of CBC members to communicate and identify issues of relevance to the Black community and into an institutional agenda.
Our next article by Caroline Hossein moves us through the diaspora to the Caribbean. In “The Legacy of Cooperatives among the African Diaspora: The Cases of Haiti and...
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