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Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora
Jean Muteba Rahier
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Paperback. Locating and connecting diasporic identities on the global scene Editor(s): Rahier, Jean Muteba; Hintzen, Percy C.; Smith, Felipe. Num Pages: 288 pages, 10 black and white photographs, 1 table. BIC Classification: JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
Global Circuits of Blackness is a sophisticated analysis of the interlocking diasporic connections between Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas. A diverse and gifted group of scholars delve into the contradictions of diasporic identity by examining at close range the encounters of different forms of blackness converging on the global scene. Contributors examine the many ways blacks have been misrecognized in a variety of contexts. They also explore how, as a direct result of transnational networking and processes of friction, blacks have deployed diasporic consciousness to interpellate forms of white supremacy that have naturalized black inferiority, inhumanity, and abjection. Various ... Read more
Global Circuits of Blackness is a sophisticated analysis of the interlocking diasporic connections between Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Americas. A diverse and gifted group of scholars delve into the contradictions of diasporic identity by examining at close range the encounters of different forms of blackness converging on the global scene. Contributors examine the many ways blacks have been misrecognized in a variety of contexts. They also explore how, as a direct result of transnational networking and processes of friction, blacks have deployed diasporic consciousness to interpellate forms of white supremacy that have naturalized black inferiority, inhumanity, and abjection. Various ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252077531
SKU
V9780252077531
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About Jean Muteba Rahier
Jean Muteba Rahier is an associate professor of anthropology and the director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at Florida International University. He is the coeditor, with Percy C. Hintzen, of Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States. Percy C. Hintzen is a professor of African American Studies and the chair of the Center for ... Read more
Reviews for Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora
"Global Circuits of Blackness pushes the envelope on the theorizing of race in an interconnected global network. The editors have assembled a fresh intervention on the politics of globalization by synthesizing eras of black cultural theory with the pressures of contemporary global displacements."
May Joseph, author of Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship
May Joseph, author of Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship