Navigating the African diaspora [electronic resource] : the anthropology of invisibility / Donald Martin Carter.

Author
Carter, Donald Martin, 1955- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
Description
1 online resource (380 p.)

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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 per
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Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
English
Contents
  • The anthropology of invisibility
  • A nonracial education : on navigating diaspora, anti-Black caricature, and anthropology
  • Remembering Khartoum and other tales of displacement
  • The inexhaustible sense of exile : other cultures in the photographic imaginary
  • Crossing modernity : the journey from imperial to diasporic nostalgia
  • Sites of erasure : Black prisoners and the poetry of Leopold Sedar Senghor
  • Comrade storyteller : diasporic encounters in the cinema of Ousmane Sembene
  • Travel warnings : observations of voyages real and imagined.
ISBN
  • 1-4529-4592-6
  • 0-8166-7331-4
OCLC
646068315
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