Race'' started as a conference series coordinated under the aegis of EMMA (University Paul-Valéry Montpellier). The first gathering of scholars in Montpellier in June 2011 was an attempt to assess how much ground had been covered over the past twenty years during which the concept of 'diaspora' has kept evolving. In the auspicious presence of Khachig Tölölyan and Robin Cohen, scholars had tried to take stock of the different acceptations of the term and how it intersects with other concepts such as 'creolization', 'métissage', 'transmigration', 'exile', 'transnationalim' and 'cosmopolitanism', as well as terms like 'branchements' or 'rhizomes' (Deleuze and Guattari, 1980; Glissant, 1981). A first volume of essays, Diasporas and Cultures of Migration, co-edited by Judith Misrahi-Barak and Claudine Raynaud, provides a reflection of the debates scholars were engaged in as well as an extensive theoretical introduction. 1 The second event held at Wake Forest University (North Carolina) in Octobre 2012 focused specifically on the articulations of diasporas and 'race', how one impacts the other and plugs in with geographic space and place, religious