Blackening Europe : the African American presence /
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New York :
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2004.
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| Series: | Crosscurrents in African American history
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword: Migrancy, culture, and a new map of Europe / Paul Gilroy
- Introduction: Making the African American experience primary / Heike Raphael-Hernandez
- PART I: CREATING A FOUNDATION
- Jazz as decal for the European avant-garde / Jed Rasula
- Blackness as symptom: Josephine Baker and European identity / Samir Dayal
- "Jungle in the spotlight"?: primitivism and esteem: Katherine Dunham's 1954 German Tour / Dorothea Fischer-Hornung
- Black music, white freedom: times and spaces of jazz countercultures in the USSR / Irina Novikova
- PART II: ACCOMPANYING EUROPE INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
- Monuments of the black Atlantic: slavery memorials in the United States and the Netherlands / Johanna C. Kardux
- Dancing away toward home: an interview with Bill T. Jones about dancing in contemporary Europe / P.A. Skantze
- The melancholic influence of the postcolonial spectral: Vera Mantero summoning Josephine Baker / Andr⥠Lepecki
- Nights of Flamenco and Blues in Spain: from sorrow songs to Sole⡠and back / Mar⩡ Fr⩡s
- Monsieur hip-hop / Felicia McCarren
- Rap, rebounds, and Rocawear: the "darkening" of German youth culture / Cathy Covell Waegner
- A.R.T., Klikk, K.A.O.S., and the rest: Hungarian youth rapping / ⅶa Mikl⯤y
- "But I ain't African, I'm American!": black American exiles and the construction of racial identities in twentieth-century France / Ch. Didier Gondola
- "Heroes across the sea": black and white British fascination with African Americans in the contemporary black British fiction by Caryl Phillips and Jackie Kay / Alan Rice
- PART III: TURNING INTO THEORY FOR EUROPE
- Never shall we be slaves: Locke's treatises, slavery, and early European modernity / Sabine Broeck
- Make capital out of their sympathy: rhetoric and reality of U.S. slavery and Italian immigrant prostitution along the color line from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century / Peter Gardner
- Blackening gypsy slavery: the Romanian case / Mihaela Mudure
- "Niggas" and "skins": nihilism among African American youth in low-income urban communities and east German youth in satellite cities, small towns, and rural areas / Heike Raphael-Hernandez.
