Converging identities : blackness in the modern African diaspora /
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Imprint: | Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, [2013]. |
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Description: | xxviii, 334 pages ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Carolina Academic Press African world series Carolina Academic Press African world series. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9349854 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. The modern African diaspora in global perspective
- Are you "black" or "ethnic"? : the dichotomous framing of immigrant identity / Philip Kretsedemas
- Blacks in France : a minority or a community? / Gado Alzouma
- The comfort of blackness : using cultural immersion to promote mental health / Barbara Streets
- Envisioned communities : the African diaspora and interwar race films / Cara Caddoo
- The middleman speaks : race, citizenship, and labor in The beautiful things that heaven bears / Julie Iromuanya
- Beyond racial myths, prejudices, and stereotypes : deconstructing African/black diaspora studies in a changing world / Okpeh Ochayi Okpeh, Jr.
- Part II. The modern African diaspora and black identity
- Black like who? the identity of an American president / Hettie V. Williams
- Black first, but not only : racial identity formation in a changing black 'hood' / Barbara H. Combs
- The African diaspora in the U.S. : cultural clash and identity challenges / Julius O. Adekunle
- The things they carried : from West Africa to low country Georgia, 1750-1800 / Karen Cook Bell
- Is the negro like other people? : race, religion, and the didactic oratory of Henry McNeal Turner / Andre E. Johnson
- Part III. The black diaspora in Latin American identity and culture
- "Pardo" and "preto" into "negro" : blackness in contemporary Brazil / G. Reginald Daniel
- Afro-Puerto Ricans and Afro-Dominicans online : constructing identities in cyberspace / Ashley D. Aaron
- Louisiana Creoles and Latinidad : locating culture and community / Andrew Jolivette & Haruki Eda
- Stereotypes of Afro-Peruvians through the media : the case of the Peruvian blackface / Miguel Becerra
- Afro-Mexican queen pageants : NGOs and the (re)construction of blackness / Jorge Gonzalez.