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• CONTENTSelelegy 5prayer & letter to the dead 7 to the sea (any) 15 "& when it happens" 16 "you are going now" 17 "hands for pleasure, hands for mending" 18 to the sea (any) 19 "black, full of language" 20 "Odysseus, his lungs full" 21 "Claim, I, to be the poet making talk" 22 "the febrile & opal" 23 to the sea near lampedusa 24 luam to the dead 25 luam/ asa luam 26 luam, who says to the dead 27 "inside the sea, there is more" 28 "The black-eyed woman" 29 "to be near sea is to gleam" 30luam in the sea, to the survivors 31luam remembers massawa 32luam to her sibling 33luam cleaning house 34the luams speak of god 35luam, new york 36luam, asmera 37luam, umbertide, asmera, new york 38"Look! In another poem you are" 40luam mending clothes 41luam, new york 42luam, monterchi, italy 43to the sea 44"Why not, in addition, tell" 45"strange earth, strange" 46to the sea 47to the sea 48"praise the water, now" 49[collective messages] 50"I love the azucena so bring them to you" 51the luams 52on poetry & history 53the black maria 54The Black Maria 55Third Estrangement, With an Ending Loosely After Jonathan Ferrell 56The Woodlice, Fourth Estrangement 57The Figeaters, Fifth Estrangement 58First Estrangement 59Moon for Aisha 60Cooley High, Fifth Estrangement 62The Beauty of the World, Tenth Estrangement 64Second Estrangement 65Third Estrangement 66Fourth Estrangement, With a Petition for the Reunion of Jonathan & George Jackson 67.
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Praise for Aracelis Girmay: "[Girmay's] every loss--she calls them estrangements--is a yearning for connection across time and place; her every fragment is a bulwark against ruin." --O, The Oprah Magazine Taking its name from the moon's dark plains, misidentified as seas by early astronomers, the black maria investigates African diasporic histories, the consequences of racism within American culture, and the question of human identity. Central to this project is a desire to recognize the lives of Eritrean refugees who have been made invisible by years of immigration crisis, refugee status, exile, and resulting statelessness. The recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award for Poetry, Girmay's newest collection elegizes and celebrates life, while wrestling with the humanistic notion of seeing beyond: seeing violence, seeing grace, and seeing each other better. "to the sea" great storage house, history on which we rode, we touched the brief pulse of your fluttering pages, spelled with salt & life, your rage, your indifference your gentleness washing our feet, all of you going on whether or not we live, to you we bring our carnations yellow & pink, how they float like bright sentences atop your memory's dark hair Aracelis Girmay is the author of three poetry collections, the black maria; Kingdom Animalia, which won the Isabella Gardner Award and was a finalist for the NBCC Award; and Teeth. The recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award, she has received grants and fellowships from the Jerome, Cave Canem, and Watson foundations, as well as Civitella Ranieri and the NEA. She currently teaches at Hampshire College's School for Interdisciplinary Arts and in Drew University's low residency MFA program. Originally from Santa Ana, California, she splits her time between New York and Amherst, Massachusetts.
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• Black lives matter
• Black futures
• Power
• Joy
• Justice
• Ownership
• Memory
• Outlook
• Black is (still) beautiful
• Legacy.

"Black Futures is a collection of work--art, photos, essays, memes, dialogues, recipes, tweets, poetry, and more--that tells the story of the radical, imaginative, bold, and beautiful world that black artists, high and low, are producing today. The book presents a succession of brilliant and provocative pieces--from both emerging and renowned creators of all kinds--that generates an entrancing rhythm: Readers will go from conversations with hackers and street artists to memes and Instagram posts, from powerful prose to dazzling paintings and insightful infographics. A generational document that captures this fast-moving generation in its own dynamic and expansive language. While shaped in the tradition of other generational statements, from The New Negro to Black Fire to Toni Morrison's landmark The Black Book, Black Futures does not have a retrospective air. It showcases the present, but points to the future. We live at a time when black culture--whether it's created by Ava DuVernay or Donald Glover, Kendrick Lamar or Cardi B, meme-makers or YouTubers--is opening our imaginations and offering new paths forward, a multi-voiced, utopian alternative to a world of walls and white nationalism. Black Futures captures this expansive vision and energy and makes it available to any reader, of any color, who wants to explore this exciting cultural moment and see the next one coming"-- Provided by publisher.

In 1656, a Maryland planter tortured and killed an enslaved man named Antonio, an Angolan who refused to work in the fields. Three hundred years later, Simon P. Owens battled soul-deadening technologies as well as the fiction of "race" that divided him from his co-workers in a Detroit auto-assembly plant. Separated by time and space, Antonio and Owens nevertheless shared a distinct kind of political vulnerability; they lacked rights and opportunities in societies that accorded marked privileges to people labeled "white." An American creation myth posits that these two black men were the victims of "racial" discrimination, a primal prejudice that the United States has haltingly but gradually repudiated over the course of many generations. In A Dreadful Deceit, award-winning historian Jacqueline Jones traces the lives of Antonio, Owens, and four other African Americans to illustrate the strange history of "race" in America. In truth, Jones shows, race does not exist, and the very factors that we think of as determining it-- a person's heritage or skin color--are mere pretexts for the brutalization of powerless people by the powerful. Jones shows that for decades, southern planters did not even bother to justify slavery by invoking the concept of race; only in the late eighteenth century did whites begin to rationalize the exploitation and marginalization of blacks through notions of "racial" difference. Indeed, race amounted to a political strategy calculated to defend overt forms of discrimination, as revealed in the stories of Boston King, a fugitive in Revolutionary South Carolina; Elleanor Eldridge, a savvy but ill-starred businesswoman in antebellum Providence, Rhode Island; Richard W. White, a Union veteran and Republican politician in post-Civil War Savannah; and William Holtzclaw, founder of an industrial school for blacks in Mississippi, where many whites opposed black schooling of any kind. These stories expose the fluid, contingent, and contradictory idea of race, and the disastrous effects it has had, both in the past and in our own supposedly post-racial society. Expansive, visionary, and provocative, A Dreadful Deceit explodes the pernicious fiction that has shaped four centuries of American history.
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• Introduction: Re(dis)covering and Recreating the Cultural Milieu of Margaret Garner
• Part I. Historical and Cultural Perspectives on Gendered Resistance / Delores M. Walters
• A Mother's Arithmetic : Elizabeth Clark Gaines's Journey from Slavery to Freedom / Mary E. Frederickson
• Coerced but Not Subdued : Gendered Resistance of Women Escaping Slavery / Cheryl Janifer La Roche
• Secret Weapons : Black Women Insurgents on Abolitionist Battlegrounds / Veta Tucker
• Enslaved Women's Resistance and Survival Strategies in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's "The Slave Mother : A Tale of the Ohio" and Toni Morrison's Beloved and Margaret Garner / Kristine Yohe
• Can Quadroon Balls Represent Acquiescence or Resistance? / Diana Williams
• Part II. Global Slavery, Healing, and New Visions in the Twenty-First Century
• Freedom Just Might Be Possible : Suraj Kali's Moment of Decision / Jolene Smith
• Marginality and Allegories of Gendered Resistance : Experiences from Southern Yemen / Huda Seif
• Resurrecting Chica da Silva : Gender, Race, and Nation in Brazilian Popular Culture / Raquel L. de Souza
• The Psychological Aftereffects of Racialized Sexual Violence / Cathy McDaniels-Wilson
• Art and Memory : Healing Body, Mind, and Spirit : A conversation with Carolyn Mazloomi, Nailah Randall Bellinger, Olivia Cousins, S. Pearl Sharp, and Catherine Roma.

Inspired by the searing story of Margaret Garner, the escaped slave who in 1856 slit her daughter's throat rather than have her forced back into slavery, the essays in this collection focus on historical and contemporary examples of slavery and women's resistance to oppression from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first. Each chapter uses Garner's example - the real-life narrative behind Toni Morrison's Beloved and the opera Margaret Garner - as a thematic foundation for an interdisciplinary conversation about gendered resistance in locations including Brazil, Yemen, India, and the United States. Contributors are Nailah Randall Bellinger, Olivia Cousins, Mary E. Frederickson, Cheryl Janifer LaRoche, Carolyn Mazloomi, Cathy McDaniels-Wilson, Catherine Roma, Huda Seif, S. Pearl Sharp, Raquel Luciana de Souza, Jolene Smith, Veta Tucker, Delores M. Walters, Diana Williams, and Kristine Yohe.
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• Contributors are Joan Cameron Bristol, Nancy E. van Deusen, Leo Garafalo, Herbert S. Klein, Charles Beatty Medina, Karen Y. Morrison, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, Frank "Trey" Proctor, and Michele B. Reid.
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Africans to Spanish America expands the diaspora framework to include Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, and Cuba, exploring the connections and disjunctures between colonial Latin America and the African diaspora in the Spanish empires. Analysis of the regions of Mexico and the Andes opens up new questions of community formation that incorporated Spanish legal strategies in secular and ecclesiastical institutions as well as articulations of multiple African identities. The volume is arranged around three sub-themes: identity construction in the Americas; the struggle by enslaved and free people to present themselves as civilized, Christian, and resistant to slavery; and issues of cultural exclusion and inclusion. Contributors are Joan Cameron Bristol, Nancy E. van Deusen, Leo Garafalo, Herbert S. Klein, Charles Beatty Medina, Karen Y. Morrison, Rachel Sarah O'Toole, Frank "Trey" Proctor, and Michele B. Reid.
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• Introduction1. Boyhood Interrupted2. Being Prepared3. Experiment at Harvard4. An Accidental Academic5. Professing in a Small and Angry Place6. The Brutal Retreat7. Unsettled Advocate8. A Violent Attack and Hopeless Case9. Monumental Plans10. Off White11. Our Man in Vladivostok12. Closure in Black and WhiteEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex.
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Richard Theodore Greener (1844-1922) was a renowned black activist and scholar. In 1870, he was the first black graduate of Harvard College. During Reconstruction, he was the first black faculty member at a southern white college, the University of South Carolina. He was even the first black US diplomat to a white country, serving in Vladivostok, Russia. A notable speaker and writer for racial equality, he also served as a dean of the Howard University School of Law and as the administrative head of the Ulysses S. Grant Monument Association. Yet he died in obscurity, his name barely remembered. His black friends and colleagues often looked askance at the light-skinned Greener's ease among whites and sometimes wrongfully accused him of trying to "pass." While he was overseas on a diplomatic mission, Greener's wife and five children stayed in New York City, changed their names, and vanished into white society. Greener never saw them again. At a time when Americans viewed themselves simply as either white or not, Greener lost not only his family but also his sense of clarity about race. Richard Greener's story demonstrates the human realities of racial politics throughout the fight for abolition, the struggle for equal rights, and the backslide into legal segregation. Katherine Reynolds Chaddock has written a long overdue narrative biography about a man, fascinating in his own right, who also exemplified America's discomfiting perspectives on race and skin color. Uncompromising Activist is a lively tale that will interest anyone curious about the human elements of the equal rights struggle.
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• Introduction1. Boyhood Interrupted2. Being Prepared3. Experiment at Harvard4. An Accidental Academic5. Professing in a Small and Angry Place6. The Brutal Retreat7. Unsettled Advocate8. A Violent Attack and Hopeless Case9. Monumental Plans10. Off White11. Our Man in Vladivostok12. Closure in Black and WhiteEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex.
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Richard Theodore Greener (1844-1922) was a renowned black activist and scholar. In 1870, he was the first black graduate of Harvard College. During Reconstruction, he was the first black faculty member at a southern white college, the University of South Carolina. He was even the first black US diplomat to a white country, serving in Vladivostok, Russia. A notable speaker and writer for racial equality, he also served as a dean of the Howard University School of Law and as the administrative head of the Ulysses S. Grant Monument Association. Yet he died in obscurity, his name barely remembered. His black friends and colleagues often looked askance at the light-skinned Greener's ease among whites and sometimes wrongfully accused him of trying to "pass." While he was overseas on a diplomatic mission, Greener's wife and five children stayed in New York City, changed their names, and vanished into white society. Greener never saw them again. At a time when Americans viewed themselves simply as either white or not, Greener lost not only his family but also his sense of clarity about race. Richard Greener's story demonstrates the human realities of racial politics throughout the fight for abolition, the struggle for equal rights, and the backslide into legal segregation. Katherine Reynolds Chaddock has written a long overdue narrative biography about a man, fascinating in his own right, who also exemplified America's discomfiting perspectives on race and skin color. Uncompromising Activist is a lively tale that will interest anyone curious about the human elements of the equal rights struggle.
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• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• Part 1: Mapping Implicit Understanding
• 1. Theories of Implicit Understanding
• 2. Racialized Common Sense
• 3. An Aesthetics of Sensuousness
• Part 2: Navigating Transformations
• 4. Negative Affect and Whiteness
• 5. Enacting Solidarity
• 6. A Knowing That Resided in My Bones
• References Index.
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Prejudice is often not a conscious attitude: because of ingrained habits in relating to the world, one may act in prejudiced ways toward others without explicitly understanding the meaning of one's actions. Similarly, one may know how to do certain things, like ride a bicycle, without being able to articulate in words what that knowledge is. These are examples of what Alexis Shotwell discusses in Knowing Otherwise as phenomena of "implicit understanding." Presenting a systematic analysis of this concept, she highlights how this kind of understanding may be used to ground positive political and social change, such as combating racism in its less overt and more deep-rooted forms. Shotwell begins by distinguishing four basic types of implicit understanding: nonpropositional, skill-based, or practical knowledge; embodied knowledge; potentially propositional knowledge; and affective knowledge. She then develops the notion of a racialized and gendered "common sense, " drawing on Gramsci and critical race theorists, and clarifies the idea of embodied knowledge by showing how it operates in the realm of aesthetics. She also examines the role that both negative affects, like shame, and positive affects, like sympathy, can play in moving us away from racism and toward political solidarity and social justice. Finally, Shotwell looks at the politicized experience of one's body in feminist and transgender theories of liberation in order to elucidate the role of situated sensuous knowledge in bringing about social change and political transformation.
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• The photochemical imagination
• On the sleeve of the visual
• The money of the real
• The long photographic century
• Conclusion: in the shadow.

In this landmark work of critical theory, black studies, and visual culture studies, Alessandra Raengo boldly reads race as a theory of the image. By placing emphasis on the surface of the visual as the repository of its meaning, race presents the most enduring ontological approach to what images are, how they feel, and what they mean. Having established her theoretical concerns, the author's eclectic readings of various artifacts of visual culture, fine arts, cinema, and rhetorical tropes provoke and destabilize readers' visual comfort zone, forcing them to recognize the unstated racial aspects of viewing and the foundational role of race in informing the visual.
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• Introduction. When is an American lynching?
• The accountant and the opera house
• Date night in the courthouse square
• The end of American lynching
• The last American lynching
• Conclusion. The subject of lynching.

The End of American Lynching questions how we think about the dynamics of lynching, what lynchings mean to the society in which they occur, how lynching is defined, and the circumstances that lead to lynching. Ashraf H. A. Rushdy looks at three lynchings over the course of the twentieth century-one in Coatesville, Pennsylvania, in 1911, one in Marion, Indiana, in 1930, and one in Jasper, Texas, in 1998-to see how Americans developed two distinct ways of thinking and talking about this act before and after the 1930s. One way takes seriously the legal and moral concept of complicity as a way to understand the dynamics of a lynching; this way of thinking can give us new perceptions into the meaning of mobs and the lynching photographs in which we find them. Another way, which developed in the 1940s and continues to influence us today, uses a strategy of denial to claim that lynchings have ended. Rushdy examines how the denial of lynching emerged and developed, providing insight into how and why we talk about lynching the way we do at the dawn of the twenty-first century. In doing so, he forces us to confront our responsibilities as American citizens and as human beings.
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• Preface to the new ed.
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I. Lele on the map
• II. Productive side of the economy
• III. Distribution of wealth
• IV. Village: offices and age-sets
• V. Clans
• VI. Marriage: I. Private wife and private family
• VII. Marriage: II. Communal village-wife and communal family
• VIII. Blood debts
• IX. Village: as creditor and debtor
• X. Role of the aristocratic clan in relations between villages
• XI. Religious sanctions on village unity and the organization of village cults
• XII. Sorcery
• XIII. Control of sorcery
• XIV. European impact on Lele society
• Appendix A: Documentation of South Homba
• Appendix B: Bibliographic references
• Index.

This first volume is a compilation of numerous essays by Douglas on the Lele in the Belgian Congo covering a fifteen year period. There are early indications of Douglas's cultural imagination and written expression that were to make her works accessible and relevant to a western readership of non-anthropologists. The intellectural tools and examples she gained from Africanist ethnography continue to serve her explorations of European and American society.
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• Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; About the author; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Traditional Courts: Why Should we Pay for Justice?; 2 Traditional Leaders will Continue as a Fact of Life; 3 Grass is Longer on the Other Side; 4 A Real Homestead Needs Enough Land for Crops; 5 Retain Values that Shape our Cultural Identity; 6 Kings and Leaders were often Imprisoned; 7 New Book on Tsonga sets Example of Cultural Pride; 8 Family Values are Antidote to Culture of Violence; 9 The Quiet Erosion of Traditional Justice Creates a New Brutality.

• 10 Traditional Leaders' Issues must not Become Political Football11 Marginalised Need Better Access to the Workings of Parliament; 12 Africans Should Pull Together in Business, as They do in Prayer; 13 If Bush intends to be Headman of Global Village, Villagers need a Say; 14 Gathering of Diverse Leaders Affirms our National Identity; 15 UN will need to help SA Fund its Land Redistribution Programme; 16 Resolving Communal Land Rights a Vital Link in Reform Process; 17 There is a Positive Way to Stop People Dumping Babies; 18 Spirit of Batho Pele, Tending to People's Needs, is Lacking.

• 19 Traditional Leadership can Help Redeem Soul of the Nation20 Educated Africans Need to Make Themselves Relevant to Society; 21 Let us make sure the Endeavours of Madiba Benefit all of His People; 22 Black Capitalists Must Grasp that Enrichment Comes with Strings; 23 National Discourse in our Mother Tongues, Please; 24 Nepad needs Africa's Cultural Custodians; 25 Crisis in the Top Ranks Affects Us All Negatively; 26 Minister's Decision on Future of Unitra Should be Overturned; 27 Chiefs Bill gives Pride of Place to Traditional Leaders and Customs.

• 28 SA Needs Leaders who Remain Rooted Among Their People29 Respect for Culture Starts by Using the Right Forums to Air Views; 30 Manner of Omar's Burial was True Reflection of his Lifelong Humility; 31 Rural Poor put Crosses Next to Faces of New-Found 'Benefactors'; 32 SA's Staging of 2010 World Cup Must be Victory for all Africans; 33 Land-Redistribution Drive Reflects Pride that no Foreigner Can Buy; 34 Academic Haven Unitra Weaving a Rope to Reach the Heavens; 35 Work Towards Restoring True African Values; 36 Teamwork Between State and Rural Leaders will Uplift Communities.

• 37 SADC Council Enabling Traditional Leaders to Claim a Place in the Sun38 Let's have Fewer MPs, Pay Them More
• and Restore Their Honour; 39 The Space for Traditional Justice; 40 Africa's Rural Communities Poised to Reap Fruits of Freedom; 41 No Street Children Where People Share What Little They Have; 42 Newly Rich Black Businessmen Must Help Their Communities; 43 Gender and Culture; 44 Mugabe Greets Charles: Whose Hands are the Bloodier?; 45 Folly to Ban Virginity Testing in the Name of Human Rights; 46 A Truly African Court may Differ on Zuma Case.

A thoughtful collection of newspaper articles and speeches, this book offers a compelling indigenous African perspective on contemporary issues and traditional values. With a framework for an alternative view on current affairs in South Africa, this new edition includes all of the original columns plus nine additional chapters, featuring speeches made to various organisations and articles published in Business Day, the Daily Dispatch, and Natal Witness.
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• Foreword / Melissa Harris-Perry
• Introduction "somebody almost walked off wid alla my stuff": Black Female Sexualities and Black Feminist Intervention / Trimiko Melancon
• Part I. Sexual Embod(y)ment: Framing the Body: 1. Entering Through the Body's Frame: Precious and the Subjective Delineations of the Movie Poster / Kimberly Juanita Brown; 2. Is It Just Baby F(Ph)at?: Black Female Teenagers, Body Size, and Sexuality / Courtney J. Patterson; 3. Corporeal Presence: Engaging the Black Lesbian Pedagogical Body in Feminist Classrooms and College Communities / Mel Michelle Lewis; 4. Untangling Pathology: Sex, Social Responsibility, and the Black Female Youth in Octavia Butler's Fledgling / Esther L. Jones
• Part II. Disengaging the Gaze: 5. Mis(Playing) Blackness: Rendering Black Female Sexuality in The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl / Ariane Cruz; 6. Why Don't We Love These Hoes?: Black Women, Popular Culture, and the Contemporary Hoe Archetype / Mahaliah Ayana Little; 7. What Kind of Woman?: Alberta Hunter and Expressions of Black Female Sexuality in the Twentieth Century / K.T. Ewing; 8. The P-Word Exchange: Representing Black Female Sexuality in Contemporary Urban Fiction / Cherise A. Pollard
• Part III. Resisting Erasure: 9. "Ou libéré?": Sexual Abuse and Resistance in Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory / Sandra C. Duvivier; 10. Rape Fantasies and Other Assaults: Black Women's Sexuality and Racial Redemption on Film / Erin D. Chapman; 11. "Embrace the Narrative of the Whole": Complicating Black Female Sexuality in Contemporary Fiction / Johanna X.K. Garvey; 12. Saving Me through Erasure?: Black Women, HIV/AIDS and Respectability / Ayana K. Weekley
• Afterword: Being Present, Facing Forward / Joanne M. Braxton.

Western culture has long regarded black female sexuality with a strange mix of fascination and condemnation, associating it with everything from desirability, hypersexuality, and liberation to vulgarity, recklessness, and disease. Yet even as their bodies and sexualities have been the subject of countless public discourses, black women's voices have been largely marginalized in these discussions. In this groundbreaking collection, feminist scholars from across the academy come together to correct this omission - illuminating black female sexual desires marked by agency and empowerment, as well as pleasure and pain, to reveal the ways black women regulate their sexual lives. The twelve original essays in Black Female Sexualities reveal the diverse ways black women perceive, experience, and represent sexuality. The contributors highlight the range of tactics that black women use to express their sexual desires and identities. Yet they do not shy away from exploring the complex ways in which black women negotiate the more traumatic aspects of sexuality and grapple with the legacy of negative stereotypes. Black Female Sexualities takes not only an interdisciplinary approach - drawing from critical race theory, sociology, and performance studies - but also an intergenerational one, in conversation with the foremothers of black feminist studies. In addition, it explores a diverse archive of representations, covering everything from blues to hip-hop, from Crash to Precious, from Sister Souljah to Edwidge Danticat. Revealing that black female sexuality is anything but a black-and-white issue, this collection demonstrates how to appreciate a whole spectrum of subjectivities, experiences, and desires.
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• Foreword by Professor Richard Pankhurst, OBE--
• 1. Movements of Africans in the Indian Ocean World--
• 2. Africans in Japan and China--
• 3. A Slave Route to Southeast Asia--
• 4. Emancipation of the East India Company--
• 5. Africans in Sri Lanka--
• 6. Africans as People-In-Between--
• 7. Cultural Memories--
• 8. Crossing Borders-- Bibliography-- Index.
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Contributes to the building of a comprehensive narrative of global African migration.
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• * Introduction: An African re-genesisJay B. Haviser and Kevin C. MacDonald* Part I: Heritage and Contemporary Identities* Contested monuments: African Americans and the commoditization of Ghana's slave castlesBrempong Osei-Tutu* Back to Africa: Issues of hosting "Roots" tourism in West AfricaFiona J. L. Handley* Cognitive issues related to interpreting the African CaribbeanJay B. Haviser* Historiographical issues in the African Diaspora experience in the New World: Re-examining the "Slave Culture" and "Creole Culture" thesesJoseph-Ernest Aondofe IyoPart II: Historical and anthropological perspectives* Archaeology and history in the study of African-AmericansPhilip D. Morgan* Putting flesh on the bones: History-Anthropology collaboration on the New York City African Burial Ground ProjectAllison Blakely* All the documents are destroyed!: Documenting slavery for St. Eustatius, Netherlands AntillesRichard Grant Gilmore III* Identity and the mirage of ethnicity: Mohammah Gardo Baquaqua's journey in the AmericasPaul E. Lovejoy* Banya: A Suriname slave play that survivedG. M. Martinus-Guda* Constructing identity through Inter-Caribbean interactions: The Curacao-Cuban migration revisitedRose Mary Allen* Part III: Archaeology and living communities* The Cane River African Diaspora Archaeological Project: Prospectus and initial resultsKevin C. MacDonald, David W. Morgan, and Fiona J. L. Handley* East End maritime traders: The emergence of a Creole community on St John, Danish West Indies, Douglas V. Armstrong* Hawking your wares: Determining the scale of informal economy through the distribution of local coarse earthenware in eighteenth-century JamaicaMark W. Hauser* African community identity at the cemeteryJohn P. McCarthy* The archaeological study of the African Diaspora in Brazil: Some ethnic issuesPedro Paulo A. Funari* The other side of freedom: The Maroon trail in SurinameE. Kofi Agorsah* Bantu elements in Palenque (Colombia): Anthropological, archaeological, and linguistic evidenceArmin Schwegler* Medium vessels and the Longue Duree: The endurance of ritual ceramics an the archaeology of the African DiasporaKenneth G. Kelly, and Neil L. Norman* Part IV: Slavery in Africa: Other Diasporas* The Trans-Atlantic slave trade and local traditions of slavery in the West African Hinterlands: The Tivland exampleCaleb A. Folorunso* Toward an archaeology of the other African diaspora: The slave trade and dispersed Africans in the western Indian Ocean, Jonathan R. Walz and Steven A. Brandt.
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Ripped from motherland and family, ethnically mixed to quell the potential of uprisings, and brutalized by regimes of hard labor, the heart - the spirit - of Africa did not stop beating in the New World. Rather, it survived and has re-emerged; changed by contacts with new cultures and environments, but still part of the continuum of African tradition: an African Re-Genesis. This is the first volume in its field to emphasize the interdisciplinary temporal and geographic comparative research of Archaeology, Anthropology, History and Linguistics to allow us to form unique perspectives on broader trends in the transformation and (re-) emergence of African Diaspora cultures. African Re-Genesis confirms that regardless of discipline, from continental Africa to Europe, the Western Hemisphere and Indian Ocean, all Diaspora research requires a relevance to modern communities and sensitivity to the interplay with contemporary cultural identities. Matters concerning race and cultural diversity, though ostensibly de-fused by the vocabulary of political correctness, remain contentious. Indeed, the topic of racial relations has become to the twenty-first century what sex was to the nineteenth century - something best not discussed in public, and better talked around than confronted directly. African Re-Genesis strikes at the nerve of urgency that the past, present and future globalization of African cultures, is a cornerstone of the entire human experience, and it thus deserves recognition as such.
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Covers an unconventional array of topics - from handkerchiefs, votives, and graffiti to food, futbol, and the Internet - as well as literature, cinema, photography, and more. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, this collection provides readings for courses in race/ethnic studies, media studies, and American studies.

• * Series Editor Preface * Acknowledgments * List of Illustrations * Pronunciation Guide * 1Progress Is a Long Journey: Negotiating Development in Rural Tanzania * 2 Constructing a Homeland: Place and Identity * 3 Like Water and Honey: The Making of Moral Communities * 4 The Ties of Blood and Bones * 5 The Making of Men and Women * 6 These Days There Is No Milk: Changing Agrarian Ecology in Iraqw Daaw * 7 Cosmology and Morality * 8 Mediating Maendeleo: Divination, Witchcraft, and Christianity * 9 Pollution and Ritual: Making and Reinforcing Boundaries * 10 Praying for Harmony: Tanzania and Globalization.
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In The Iraqw of Tanzania: Negotiating Rural Development, author Katherine Snyder focuses on how the Iraqw perceive, respond to, and affect development in Tanzania. Snyder explores how the ideology of development affects people's actions, from what crops to plant, to what to wear and do at their weddings, and considers too how issues of development play out between elders and juniors, men and women, and wealthy and poor. She shows the creativity of local actors in adapting to new ideological shifts and using the rhetoric of development to pursue their own goals. Presenting the author's own fieldwork, avoiding jargon, and making extensive use of vignettes--stories of peoples' lives and incidents--The Iraqw of Tanzania illustrates its themes in a manner useful and fascinating to students. Detailed, richly textured ethnographic material Covers fundamental anthropology topics (kinship, politics, gender, economy, etc) An ideal text for courses on peoples and cultures of Africa, Third World development, postcolonial studies, and anthropology of religion.
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• Acknowledgements-- Introduction ONE: Shadow and Act: Minstrelsy and the Absent Black Presence-- TWO: The Fire This Time: Black Masculinity in Contemporary Performance-- THREE: Affective Gestures: Hip-Hop Aesthetics and the Body in Performance-- FOUR: Real Niggas: Black Men, Hard Men and the Rise of Gangsta Culture-- FIVE: Race Rebels: Whiteness and the New Masculine Desire Epilogue-- References-- Notes-- Appendix.
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This multilayered study of the representation of black masculinity in musical and cultural performance takes aim at the reduction of African American male culture to stereotypes of deviance, misogyny, and excess. Broadening the significance of hip-hop culture by linking it to other expressive forms within popular culture, Miles White examines how these representations have both encouraged the demonization of young black males in the United States and abroad and contributed to the construction of their identities. From Jim Crow to Jay-Z traces black male representations to chattel slavery and American minstrelsy as early examples of fetishization and commodification of black male subjectivity.Continuing with diverse discussions including black action films, heavyweight prizefighting, Elvis Presley's performance of blackness, and white rappers such as Vanilla Ice and Eminem, White establishes a sophisticated framework for interpreting and critiquing black masculinity in hip-hop music and culture. Arguing that black music has undeniably shaped American popular culture and that hip-hop tropes have exerted a defining influence on young male aspirations and behavior, White draws a critical link between the body, musical sound, and the construction of identity.
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• pt.
• 1. Creating Ààlè
• pt.
• 2. Call-and-response
• pt.
• 3. Portraits and punishments.

"Throughout southwestern Nigeria, Yoruba men and women create objects called ààlé to protect their properties from the ravages of thieves. Ààlé are objects of such unassuming appearance that a non-Yoruba viewer might not register their important presence in the Yoruba visual landscape. David T. Doris argues that ààlé are keys to understanding how images function in Yoruba social and cultural life"--Publisher description.

• Preface Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction
• 1. Frontline Memories
• 2. Invasion
• 3. Fault Lines
• 4. Tanzanite for Tanzanians
• 5. Bye, the Beloved Country
• 6. White Spots Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

Tracing the expansion of South African business into other areas of Africa in the years after apartheid, Richard A. Schroeder explores why South Africans have not always made themselves welcome guests abroad. By looking at investments in Tanzania, a frontline state in the fight for liberation, Schroeder focuses on the encounter between white South Africans and Tanzanians and the cultural, social, and economic controversies that have emerged as South African firms assume control of local assets. Africa after Apartheid affords a penetrating look at the unexpected results of the expansion of African business opportunities following the demise of apartheid.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)