A collection that theorizes how global political and economic changes have influenced the ways in which people of African descent represent and contemplate their identities.
A collection that theorizes how global political and economic changes have influenced the ways in which people of African descent represent and contemplate their identities.
Kamari Maxine Clarke is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Yale University. She is the author of Mapping Yorùbá Networks: Power and Agency in the Making of Transnational Communities, also published by Duke University Press. Deborah A. Thomas is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. She is the author of Modern Blackness: Nationalism, Globalization, and the Politics of Culture in Jamaica, also published by Duke University Press.
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Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Globalization and the Transformations of Race / Deborah A. Thomas and Kamari Maxine Clarke 1 Part I. Diasporic Movements, Missions and Modernities Missionary Positions / Lee D. Baker 37 History at the Crossroads: Vodu and the Modernization of the Dominican Borderlands / Robert L. Adams 55 Diaspora and Desire: Gendering “Black America” in Black Liverpool / Jacqueline Nassy Brown 73 Diaspora Space, Ethnographic Space: Writing History Between the Lines / Tina M. Campt 93 “Mama, I’m Walking to Canada”: Black Geopolitics and Invisible Empires / Naomi Pabst 112 Part II. Geograpies of Racial Belonging Mapping Transnationality: Roots Tourism and the Institutionalization of Ethnic Heritage / Kamari Maxine Clarke 133 Emigration and the Spatial Production of Difference from Cape Verde / Kesha Fikes 154 Folkloric “Others”: Blanqueamiento and the Celebration of Blackness as an Exception in Puerto Rico / Isar P. Godreau 171 Gentrification, Globalization, and Georaciality / John L. Jackson Jr. 188 Recasting “Black Venus” in the “New” African Dispora / Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe 206 “Shooting the White Girl First”: Race in Post-aparteid South Africa / Grant Farred 226 Part III. Popular Blacknesses, “Authenticity,” and New Measures of Legitimacy Havana’s Timba: A Macho Sound for Black Sex / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant 249 Reading Buffy and “Looking Proper”: Race, Gender, and Consumption among West Indian Girls in Brooklyn / Oneka Labennett 279 The Homegrown: Rap, Race, and Class in London / Raymond Codrington 299 Racialization, Gender, and the Negotiation of Power in Stockholm’s African Dance Courses / Lena Sawyer 316 Modern Blackness: Progress, “America,” and the Politics of Popular Culture in Jamaica / Deborah A. Thomas 335 Bibliography 355 Contributors 391 Index 395
Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Globalization and the Transformations of Race / Deborah A. Thomas and Kamari Maxine Clarke 1 Part I. Diasporic Movements, Missions and Modernities Missionary Positions / Lee D. Baker 37 History at the Crossroads: Vodu and the Modernization of the Dominican Borderlands / Robert L. Adams 55 Diaspora and Desire: Gendering “Black America” in Black Liverpool / Jacqueline Nassy Brown 73 Diaspora Space, Ethnographic Space: Writing History Between the Lines / Tina M. Campt 93 “Mama, I’m Walking to Canada”: Black Geopolitics and Invisible Empires / Naomi Pabst 112 Part II. Geograpies of Racial Belonging Mapping Transnationality: Roots Tourism and the Institutionalization of Ethnic Heritage / Kamari Maxine Clarke 133 Emigration and the Spatial Production of Difference from Cape Verde / Kesha Fikes 154 Folkloric “Others”: Blanqueamiento and the Celebration of Blackness as an Exception in Puerto Rico / Isar P. Godreau 171 Gentrification, Globalization, and Georaciality / John L. Jackson Jr. 188 Recasting “Black Venus” in the “New” African Dispora / Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe 206 “Shooting the White Girl First”: Race in Post-aparteid South Africa / Grant Farred 226 Part III. Popular Blacknesses, “Authenticity,” and New Measures of Legitimacy Havana’s Timba: A Macho Sound for Black Sex / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant 249 Reading Buffy and “Looking Proper”: Race, Gender, and Consumption among West Indian Girls in Brooklyn / Oneka Labennett 279 The Homegrown: Rap, Race, and Class in London / Raymond Codrington 299 Racialization, Gender, and the Negotiation of Power in Stockholm’s African Dance Courses / Lena Sawyer 316 Modern Blackness: Progress, “America,” and the Politics of Popular Culture in Jamaica / Deborah A. Thomas 335 Bibliography 355 Contributors 391 Index 395
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