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63%OFFViolet Showers Johnson (Ed.) - Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles: Critical Perspectives on Blackness, Belonging, and Civil Rights - 9781786940339 - 9781786940339
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Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles: Critical Perspectives on Blackness, Belonging, and Civil Rights

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Description for Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles: Critical Perspectives on Blackness, Belonging, and Civil Rights Hardback. Editor(s): Johnson, Violet Showers; Graml, Gundolf; Williams Lessane, Patricia. Series: FORECAAST (Forum for European Contributions to African American Studies). Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 163. .

Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles interrogates Blackness and illustrates how it has been used as a basis to oppress, dismiss and exclude Blacks from societies and institutions in Europe, North America and South America. Employing uncharted analytical categories that tackle intriguing themes about borderless non-racial African ancestry, “traveling” identities and post-blackness, the essays provide new lenses for viewing the “Black” struggle worldwide. This approach directs the contributors’ focus to understudied locations and protagonists. In the volume, Charleston, South Carolina is more prominent than Little Rock Arkansas in the struggle to desegregate schools; Chicago occupies the space usually reserved for Atlanta or ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Condition
New
Series
FORECAAST (Forum for European Contributions to African American Studies)
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786940339
SKU
9781786940339
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About Violet Showers Johnson (Ed.)
Violet Showers Johnson is Associate Dean and Professor of History in the College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University. She is author of 'The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950' (Indiana University Press, 2006); co-author of 'African & American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America' (NYU Press, 2014); and co-editor of 'Western Fictions, Black Realities: Meanings of Blackness ... Read more

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