A diaspora requires dispersal from a homeland and the retention of a shared
lineage, culture, and identity across borders. Black Americans are not a branch of
another people at all. We are a creolized North American Ethnic group that has
origins in America.
Haitians, Jamaicans, Ghanaians, Nigerians, etc etc have definite diasporas globally
because they left a homeland and maintained continuity abroad.
Black Americans didn’t migrate here but we did migrate within (Great Migration
Era)
Liberia? They are a completely different culture. We share the same progenitors
but they are a different people culture and society.
Nova Scotia? Most of those settlers did not remain in Nova Scotia. Within a few
decades, a large portion left for Sierra Leone (forming yet another distinct people
the Creoles (Krio) of Freetown) Those who stayed in Nova Scotia amalgamated
with later Caribbean migrants and developed into a melanated Canadian
population with its own identity and history completely separate from Black
Americans.
Or what about Mexico? Nope
The closest example I would say is the Samana community in DR. But ask yourself.
If a large Black American population moved to Samana DR and mixed with them,
would the Samana heritage be erased? Does this make them a Diasporan
community?
The Liberian settlers became Americo-Liberians, a new culture. The communities
in Canada blended into Black Canadian identity. The movement into Mexico never
became a distinct, generational Black American population.
There is no Black American diaspora anywhere there is only the diffusion of Black
American culture. You have expat communities possibly
