Migrating the Black body : the African diaspora and visual culture / edited by Leigh Raiford and Heike Raphael-Hernandez.

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Migrating the Black Body" explores how visual media - from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Hollywood movies, from posters and broadsides to digital media, from public art to graphic novels -has shaped diasporic imaginings of the individual and collective self. How is the t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Raiford, Leigh (Author, Editor)
Raphael-Hernandez, Heike (Author, Editor)
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2017]
Subjects:
African diaspora in art.
Art.
Black people in mass media.
Physical Description:365 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Leigh Raiford and Heike Raphael-Hernandez
  • Part 1. Making Blackness serve
  • Containing bodies; enscandalizing enslavement: stasis and movement at the juncture of slave-ship images and texts / Carsten Junker
  • Russian blackamoors: from grand-manner portraiture to alphabet in pictures / Irina Novikova
  • Migrating images of the Black body politic and the sovereign state: Haiti in the 1850s / Karen N. Salt
  • Playing the white knight: Badin, chess, and Black self-fashioning in eighteenth-century Sweden / Joachim Östlund
  • Making Blackness serve China: the image of Afro-Asia in Chinese political posters / Robeson Taj Frazier
  • Part 2. Dreaming diasporas
  • The glamorous one-two punch: visualizing celebrity, masculinity, and boxer Alfonso Teofilo Brown in early twentieth-century Paris / Lyneise Williams
  • The here and now of Eslanda Robeson's African journey / Leigh Raiford
  • Black and Cuba: an interview with filmmaker Robin J. Hayes / Robin J. Hayes and Julia Roth
  • Return to which roots? Interracial documemoirs by Macky Alston, Eliachi Kimaro, and Mo Asumang / Cedric Essi
  • Dreaming diasporas / Cheryl Finley
  • Part 3. Differently Black
  • Differently Black: the fourth great migration and Black Catholic saints in Ramin Bahrani's Goodbye solo and Jim Sheridan's In America / Charles I. Nero
  • Coloured in South Africa: an interview with filmmaker Kiersten Dunbar Chace and photojournalist Rushay Booysen / Sonja Georgi and Pia Wiegmink
  • When home meets diaspora at the door of no return: cinematic encounters in Sankofa and Little Senegal / Heike Raphael-Hernandez
  • Of plastic ducks and cockle pickers: African Atlantic artists and critiques of bonded labor across chronologies / Alan Rice
  • At home, online: affective exchange and the diasporic body in Ghanaian internet video / Reginold A. Royston
  • Part 4. Afro-fabulation
  • Habeas ficta: fictive ethnicity, affecting representations, and slaves on screen / Tavia Nyong'o
  • The Black body as photographic image: video light in postcolonial Jamaica / Krista Thompson
  • The Not-Yet Justice League: fantasy, redress, and transatlantic Black history on the comic book page / Darieck Scott.