Afro-Nordic landscapes : equality and race in Northern Europe / edited by Michael McEachrane ; foreword by Paul Gilroy.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
  • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, New York : Routledge, 2014.
  • ©2014
Description
1 online resource (284 pages).

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Series
  • łaRoutledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora ;łv5. [More in this series]
  • Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora ; 5
Summary note
This volume examines the growing presence of Africans and people of African descent in the Nordic countries in relation to national identities, racism and diaspora. The book covers a broad range of topics such as the history of jazz in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, the existential predicament of being a mixed-race black Swedish woman, and Diasporas from the Horn of Africa in the Nordic countries. As Paul Gilroy writes in his foreword, it is a book that "should be studied with care and profit inside the Nordic countries and also outside them by the broader international readership that has been established around the study of racism and 'critical race theory'.".
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on print version record.
Contents
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I.
  • II.
  • III.
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Part I: The Nation
  • 1. Imagining Blackness at the Margins: Race and Difference in Iceland
  • Africa in Iceland Prior to the 19th Century
  • Creating a Racial Community in Iceland
  • Racial Meanings in Contemporary Iceland
  • 2. Queendom: On Being Black, Feminist Norwegian Women
  • 'Race' and Racism in Norway
  • A Feminist Queendom: "We are all Women that Work for Women to be Better Women"
  • An Anti-Racist Queendom: "You Delete us from Our Own History of Being Here: Don't do that!"
  • The Differences that Make us: Concluding Remarks
  • 3. The Midnight Sun Never Sets: An Email Conversation About Jazz, Race and National Identity in Denmark, Norway and Sweden
  • The Early Reception
  • From Demonized to Assimilated
  • WWII
  • The Harlem Kiddies
  • The Golden Years of Swedish Jazz
  • The Jazz Capitol
  • Race in "The Cop"
  • Tchicai
  • Jazz as High Art
  • A Nordic Tone?
  • Mazur
  • Part II: Racism
  • 4. There's a White Elephant in the Room: Equality and Race in (Northern) Europe
  • Dignity First
  • Humanism or Pseudo-Humanism?
  • The Politics of Race Blindness
  • White Supremacy
  • Embodying Equality
  • 5. Racism Is No Joke: A Swedish Minister and a Hottentot Venus Cake-An Email Conversation
  • Dissenting Voices
  • Representing the State
  • Whose Freedom?
  • Empowering African Women
  • Afromantics
  • A Nation of Anti-Racists
  • Black Skull Consciousness?
  • Politicizing Black Swedish Subjectivity
  • 6. Searching for Words: Becoming Mixed Race, Black and Swedish
  • A Swedish Context
  • Mixed How?
  • Becoming a Nomadic Subject
  • Bibliography.
  • 7. Bertrand Besigye's Civilization Critique: An Aesthetics of Blackness in Norway
  • Against Racism
  • Against an Alienating Norwegianness
  • An-Other Vision
  • 8. Two Poems by Bertrand Besigye
  • How a Black African Orders Black Coffee
  • You Can't Keep a Good Man Down. or Black Hail Over all of West Side
  • Part III: Diaspora
  • 9. Talking Back: Voices from the African Diaspora in Finland
  • "Black" in Finland
  • Finns' Knowledge of Africans
  • Memoirs of the Only Black Finn
  • African Students in Finland
  • Discourses of Immigration
  • Talking Back to Exclusive Finnishness
  • 10. Den Sorte: Nella Larsen and Denmark
  • In Search of Nella Larsen-In Denmark
  • "We Don't Think of These Things Here": Race and Colonialism in Quicksand's Copenhagen
  • Frøkken Crane Goes to Nørrebronx: "New Danes" and "Danish Values" in the Twenty-First Century
  • 11. A Horn of Africa in Northern Europe-An Email Conversation
  • Speaking of Racism
  • Discrimination in Context
  • Black in the Horn
  • Politicizing Race
  • Speaking of Integration
  • Contributors
  • Index.
ISBN
  • 1-138-20711-X
  • 1-315-77471-2
  • 1-317-68524-5
  • 1-317-68525-3
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