Global circuits of blackness
Subtitle: interrogating the African diaspora
By: edited by Jean Muteba Rahier, Percy C. Hintzen, and Felipe Smith.
Contributors: Rahier, Jean, 1959-; Hintzen, Percy C.; Smith, Felipe.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780252035623; 9780252077531
Subjects: African diaspora; Blacks -- Race identity; Blacks -- Social conditions
Notes: "This volume is a selection of the best papers presented by then Ph.D. students (enrolled in a variety of universities in the United States and abroad) at the 2004, 2005, and 2006 international summer seminars, "Interrogating the African Diaspora," organized by the three co-editors at Florida International University (FIU), with a Ford Foundation grant"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theorizing the African diaspora : metaphor, miscognition, and self-recognition / Percy C. Hintzen and Jean Muteba Rahier; title: The African diaspora as imagined community / Felipe Smith; title: The Ecuadorian victories in the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the ideological biology of (non-) citizenship / Jean Muteba Rahier; title: Race and diasporic imaginings among West Indians in the San Francisco Bay Area / Percy C. Hintzen; title: Continuity, change, and authenticity in Toronto's 1990 Caribana concert / Lyndon Phillip; title: Rethinking the African diaspora and HIV/AIDS prevention from the perspective of ballroom culture / Marlon M. Bailey; title: Remapping South African and African American cultural imaginaries / Stephane Robolin; title: Amy Jacques Garvey, Theodore Bilbo, and the paradoxes of Black nationalism / Reena N. Goldthree; title: Diaspora homecoming, vodun ancestry and the ambiguities of transnational belongings in the Republic of Benin / Jung Ran Forte; title: Somos negros finos : Anglophone Caribbean cultural citizenship in revolutionary Cuba / Andrea Queeley.