Converging identities : Blackness in the modern African diaspora / Julius O. Adekunle, Hettie V. Williams.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Carolina Academic Press African world series.
Other Authors: Adekunle, Julius (Editor)
Williams, Hettie V. (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, 2013.
Series:Carolina Academic Press African world series.
Subjects:
African diaspora.
Black people > Race identity.
Africa > Emigration and immigration.
African diaspora in literature.
Physical Description:xxviii, 334 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Part I. The modern African diaspora in global perspective
  • Are you "Black" or "ethnic"? : the dichotomous framing of immigrant identity / Philip A. Kretsedemas
  • Blacks in France : a minority or a community? / Gado Alzouma
  • The comfort of Blackness : using cultural immersion to promote mental health / Barbara F. Streets
  • Envisioned communities : the African diaspora in 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
  • Part II. The modern African diaspora and Black identity
  • Black like who? Race and the cosmopolitan self identity of Barack Obama / Hettie V. Williams
  • Black first, but not only : racial identity formation in a changing Black 'hood' / Barbara Combs
  • The African diaspora in the US : cultural clash and identity challenges / Julius O. Adekunle
  • The things they carried : knowledge and information transfers from West Africa to Low Country Georgia / Karen 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
  • From "pardo" and "preto" into negro : Blackness in contemporary Brazil / G. Reginald Daniel
  • Afrolatinidada online : Afro-Puerto Ricans and Afro-Dominicans constructing identity in cyberspace / Ashley D. Aaron
  • Louisiana creoles and latinidad : locating culture and community / Andrew Jolivette and Haruki Eda
  • Stereotypes of Afro-Peruvians through the media : the case of the Peruvian Blackface / Miguel Becerra
  • Afro-Mexican queen pageants : NGO's and the ethnicization of Blackness from Costa Chica, Oaxaca to Pasadena, CA / Jorge Gonzalez.