Globalization and race : transformations in the cultural production of blackness 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 Im 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 Havanas 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 Stockholms African dance courses Lena Sawyer Modern blackness : progress America and the politics of popular culture in Jamaica Deborah A. Thomas