Transnational blackness : navigating the global color line / edited by Manning Marable and Vanessa Agard-Jones.

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Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Description
1 online resource (vii, 366 pages)

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Black intellectuals in the US have long thought of racism as a global phenomenon. This book presents, for the first time, a full overview of the history, critical analysis and theoretical perspectives of key black scholars and activists on the transnational dynamics of modern race and racism throughout the world.
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Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
English
Contents
  • Introduction: Blackness beyond boundaries / Manning Marable
  • Theorizing race in a global context: Race and globalization : racialization from below / Leith Mullings. Global apartheid, foreign policy, and human rights / Faye V. Harrison. The modern world racial system / Howard Winant. The ongoing contestation over nationhood / Anthony W. Marx
  • Interrogating race and racism in the Americas: A tale of two barrios : Puerto Rican youth and the politics of belonging / Gina M. Perez. Reinventing the Jamaican political system / Brian Meeks. Afro-Colombia : a case for pan-African analysis / Joseph Jordan
  • Mutual inspiration: radicals in transnational space: The Havana AfroCubano movement and the Harlem Renaissance : the role of the intellectual in the formation of racial and national identity / Ricardo Rene Laremont and Lisa Yun. Eslanda Goode Robeson's African journey : the politics of identification and representation in the African diaspora / Maureen Mahon. Du Bois's double consciousness versus Latin American exceptionalism : Joe Arroyo, salsa, and negritude / Mark Q. Sawyer. "Long live Third World unity! Long live internationalism" : Huey P. Newton's revolutionary intercommunalism / Besenia Rodriguez. "A free Black mind is a concealed weapon" : institutions and social movements in the African diaspora / Robin J. Hayes
  • Europe and Asia on the color line: Tokyo bound : African Americans and Japan confront white supremacy / Gerald Horne. Femme negritude : Jane Nardal, la depeche africaine, and the Francophone New Negro / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. Regionalism against racism : the transEurope struglle for racial equality / Clarence Lusane
  • Crafting resistance : identity, narrative, and agency: Salvaging lives in the African diaspora : anthropology, ethnography, and women's narratives / Irma McClaurin. Going back to our own : interpreting Malcolm X's transition from "Black Asiatic" to "Afro-American" / Elizabeth Mazucci. Linking African and Asian in passing and passage / Lisa Yun. Out of chaos : Afro-Colombian peace communities and the realities of war / Asale Angel-Ajani
  • Race, power, and politics in Africa: African American expatriates in Ghana and the Black radical tradition / Kevin K. Gaines. "Crimes of history" : Senegalese soccer and the forensics of slavery / Michael Ralph. Nuclear imperialism and the pan-African struggle for peace and freedom : Ghana, 1959-1962 / Jean Allman.
ISBN
  • 1-282-19873-4
  • 9786612198731
  • 0-230-61539-2
OCLC
433066380
Doi
  • 10.1057/9780230615397
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