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.
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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