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This article discusses the institutionalization of ethnic heritage with the example of black Americans. The author argues that claims to African membership became more negotiable as a result of the globalization of cultural heritage opportunities. He further states that the development of diaspora studies in the US has contributed to place-based conceptions of racialization and cultural formations, since African diaspora studies not only overdetermined the homogeneity of race and culture, but also created an approach to the concept of diaspora that charted migration as a unipolar link from Africa to elsewhere.