Jayne O Ifekwunigwe

Scattered Belongings

Cultural Paradoxes of Race, Nation and Gender

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about ordinary lives faced with the dilemmas of not being 'black' or 'white' in a world which seems to be perceived on these terms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 165mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780415170956
• ISBN-10: 0415170958
• Artikelnr.: 21313371

Autorenporträt

Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe is Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology at the University of East London.

Inhaltsangabe

List of plates
Prologue
A cknowledgements
1 Cracking the coconut: resisting popular folk discourses on "race," "mixed race" and social hierarchies
2 Returning(s): relocating the critical feminist autoethnographer
3 Setting the stage: invoking the griot(te) traditions as textual strategies
Preamble: could I be a part of your family? Preliminary /contextualizing thoughts on psychocultural politics of transracial placements and adoption
4 Ruby
5 Similola
6 Akousa
7 Sarah
8 Bisi
9 Yemi
10 Let Blackness and Whiteness wash through: competing discourses on bi
racialization and the compulsion of genealogical erasures
Epilogue
Select Bibliographies
Index.