Globalization and race : transformations in the cultural production of blackness /

Globalization and race : transformations in the cultural production of blackness /

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Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas argue that a firm grasp of globalization requires an understanding of how race has constituted, and been constituted by, global transformations. Focusing attention on race as an analytic category, this state-of-the-art collection of essays explores the chan...

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Other Authors: Clarke, Kamari Maxine, 1966- (Editor), Thomas, Deborah A., 1966- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
Series:Duke backfile
Subjects:
Black race.
Black people > Race identity.
Black people > Folklore.
African Americans in popular culture.
Culture and globalization.
Globalization > Political aspects.
African diaspora.
Folklore.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Globalization and the transformations of race / Deborah A. Thomas and Kamari Maxine Clarke
  • Missionary positions / Lee D. Baker
  • History at the crossroads : vodú and the modernization of the Dominican borderlands / Robert L. Adams
  • Diaspora and desire : gendering "Black America" in Black Liverpool / Jacqueline Nassy Brown
  • Diaspora space, ethnographic space : writing history between the lines / Tina M. Campt
  • "Mama, I'm walking to Canada" : Black geopolitics and invisible empires / Naomi Pabst
  • Mapping transnationality : roots tourism and the institutionalization of ethnic heritage / Kamari Maxine Clarke
  • Emigration and the spatial production of difference from Cape Verde / Kesha Fikes
  • Folkloric "others" : blanqueamiento and the celebration of Blackness as an exception in Puerto Rico / Isar P. Godreau
  • Gentrification, globalization, and georaciality / John L. Jackson Jr.
  • Recasting "Black Venus" in the "New" African diaspora / Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
  • "Shooting the White girl first" : race in postapartheid South Africa / Grant Farred
  • Havana's Timba : A macho sound for Black sex / Ariana Hernandez-Reguant
  • Reading Buffy and "looking proper" : race, gender, and consumption among West Indian girls in Brooklyn / Oneka LaBennett
  • The homegrown : race, rap, and class in London / Raymond Codrington
  • Racialization, gender, and the negotiation of power in Stockholm's African dance courses / Lena Sawyer
  • Modern blackness : progress, "America," and the politics of popular culture in Jamaica / Deborah A. Thomas.

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