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Navigating the African Diaspora
Donald Martin Carter
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Description for Navigating the African Diaspora
Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, 8 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 544.
Investigating how the fraught political economy of migration impacts people around the world, Donald Martin Carter raises important issues about contemporary African diasporic movements. Developing the notion of the anthropology of invisibility, he explores the trope of navigation in social theory intent on understanding the lived experiences of transnational migrants. Carter examines invisibility in its various forms, from social rejection and residential segregation to war memorials and the inability of some groups to represent themselves through popular culture, scholarship, or art. The pervasiveness of invisibility is not limited to symbolic actions, Carter shows, but may have dramatic and at times catastrophic ... Read more
Investigating how the fraught political economy of migration impacts people around the world, Donald Martin Carter raises important issues about contemporary African diasporic movements. Developing the notion of the anthropology of invisibility, he explores the trope of navigation in social theory intent on understanding the lived experiences of transnational migrants. Carter examines invisibility in its various forms, from social rejection and residential segregation to war memorials and the inability of some groups to represent themselves through popular culture, scholarship, or art. The pervasiveness of invisibility is not limited to symbolic actions, Carter shows, but may have dramatic and at times catastrophic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816647781
SKU
V9780816647781
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About Donald Martin Carter
Donald Martin Carter is associate professor of Africana studies at Hamilton College.
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