Transnational blackness
Subtitle: navigating the global color line
By: edited by Manning Marable and Vanessa Agard-Jones.
Contributors: Marable, Manning, 1950-; Agard-Jones, Vanessa.
Series: Critical black studies series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Blacks -- Race identity; Race relations -- History; Race awareness
Description: Presents an overview of the history, critical analysis and theoretical perspectives of key black scholars and activists on the transnational dynamics of modern race and racism. This book covers the transnational dynamics of modern race and racism in the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Europe.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Blackness beyond boundaries / Manning Marable; title: Theorizing race in a global context; title: Race and globalization: racialization from below / Leith Mullings; title: Racism in a time of terror: notes from Ground Zero, 2001 / Manning Marable; title: Global apartheid, foreign policy, and human rights / Faye V. Harrison; title: The modern world racial system / Howard Winant; title: The ongoing contestation over nationhood / Anthony W. Marx; title: No global justice, no global peace / Bill Fletcher; title: Interrogating race and racism in the Americas; title: Terror of terrorism: its impact on women's lives in the Caribbean / A. Lynne Bolles; title: A tale of two barrios: Puerto Rican youth and the politics of belonging / Gina M. Pérez; title: Reinventing the Jamaican political system / Brian Meeks; title: Afro-Colombia: a case for Pan-African analysis / Joseph Jordan; title: Mutual inspiration: radicals in transnational space; title: The Havana AfroCubano movement and the Harlem renaissance: the role of the intellectual in the formation of racial and national identity / Ricardo Rene Laremont and Lisa Yun; title: Eslanda Goode Robeson's African journey: the politics of identification and representation in the African diaspora / Maureen Mahon; title: Du Bois's double consciousness versus Latin American exceptionalism: Joe Arroyo, salsa, and negritude / Mark Q. Sawyer; title: 'Long live Third World unity! Long live internationalism': Huey P. Newton's revolutionary intercommunalism / Besenia Rodriguez; title: 'A free black mind is a concealed weapon:' institutions & social movements in the African diaspora / Robin Hayes; title: Europe and Asia on the color line; title: Tokyo bound: African Americans and Japan confront white supremacy / Gerald Horne; title: Femme negritude: Jane Nardal, la depeche Africaine, and the francophone new negro / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting; title: In denial: racial profiling in Europe / Clarence Lusane; title: The Europeanization of American racism or a new racial hybrid?: After September 11 / Amrita Basu; title: Crafting resistance: identity, narrative, and agency; title: Salvaging lives in the African diaspora: anthropology, ethnography, and women's narratives / Irma McClaurin; title: Going back to our own: interpreting Malcolm X's transition from "Black Asiatic" to "Afro-American" / Liz Mazucci; title: Linking African and Asian in passing and passage / Lisa Yun; title: Out of chaos: Afro-Colombian peace communities and the realities of war / Asale Angel-Ajani; title: Re/turning (to) the source: race and power in Africa; title: African American expatriates in Ghana and the black radical tradition / Kevin K. Gaines; title: "Crimes of history": Senegalese soccer and the forensics of slavery / Michael Ralph; title: African women: globalization and peacebuilding from the bottom up / Gwendolyn Mikell; title: Nuclear imperialism and the Pan-African struggle for peace and freedom: Ghana, 1959-1962 / Jean Allman; title: Appendix; title: The editors world conference against racism, xenophobia, and related; title: Intolerance; title: Michael manley : interview with Manning Marable.