Transnational blackness : navigating the global color line / edited by Manning Marable and Vanessa Agard-Jones.

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 Eur...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Other Authors: Marable, Manning, 1950-2011, Agard-Jones, Vanessa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Critical Black studies series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Blackness beyond boundaries / Manning Marable
  • Theorizing race in a global context: Race and globalization : racialization from below / Leith Mullings. Global apartheid, foreign policy, and human rights / Faye V. Harrison. The modern world racial system / Howard Winant. The ongoing contestation over nationhood / Anthony W. Marx
  • Interrogating race and racism in the Americas: A tale of two barrios : Puerto Rican youth and the politics of belonging / Gina M. Pérez. Reinventing the Jamaican political system / Brian Meeks. Afro-Colombia : a case for pan-African analysis / Joseph Jordan
  • Mutual inspiration: radicals in transnational space: 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. Eslanda Goode Robeson's African journey : the politics of identification and representation in the African diaspora / Maureen Mahon. Du Bois's double consciousness versus Latin American exceptionalism : Joe Arroyo, salsa, and négritude / Mark Q. Sawyer. "Long live Third World unity! Long live internationalism" : Huey P. Newton's revolutionary intercommunalism / Besenia Rodriguez. "A free Black mind is a concealed weapon" : institutions and social movements in the African diaspora / Robin J. Hayes
  • Europe and Asia on the color line: Tokyo bound : African Americans and Japan confront white supremacy / Gerald Horne. Femme négritude : Jane Nardal, la dépêche africaine, and the Francophone New Negro / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. Regionalism against racism : the transEurope struggle for racial equality / Clarence Lusane
  • Crafting resistance : identity, narrative, and agency: Salvaging lives in the African diaspora : anthropology, ethnography, and women's narratives / Irma McClaurin. Going back to our own : interpreting Malcolm X's transition from "Black Asiatic" to "Afro-American" / Elizabeth Mazucci. Linking African and Asian in passing and passage / Lisa Yun. Out of chaos : Afro-Colombian peace communities and the realities of war / Asale Angel-Ajani
  • Race, power, and politics in Africa: African American expatriates in Ghana and the Black radical tradition / Kevin K. Gaines. "Crimes of history" : Senegalese soccer and the forensics of slavery / Michael Ralph. Nuclear imperialism and the pan-African struggle for peace and freedom : Ghana, 1959-1962 / Jean Allman.