Transnational Blackness Navigating the Global Color Line

by Marable, Manning; Agard-Jones, Vanessa

• ISBN13: 9780230602670
• ISBN10: 0230602673
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The Critical Black Studies Series celebrates its third volume, Transnational Blackness . The series, under the general supervision of Manning Marable, features readers and anthologies examining challenging topics within the contemporary black experience--in the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, and across the African Diaspora. Previously published in the series are Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives: The Racism, Criminal Justice, and Law Reader (September 2007) and Seeking Higher Ground: The Hurricane Katrina Crisis, Race, and Public Policy Reader (January 2008) . Celebrating the third volume of CRITICAL BLACK STUDIES Series Editor: Manning Marable For many decades, black intellectuals in the United States have thought of racism as a global phenomenon. Transnational Blackness presents, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the history, critical analysis, and theoretical perspectives of key black scholars and activists on the transnational dynamics of modern race and racism throughout the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and Europe. The book examines the social thought of, among others: W.E.B. DuBois, Eslanda Goode Robeson, Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, and Michael Manley.

Author Biography

Manning Marable is Professor of History and Political Science and Director, Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University. Vanessa Agard-Jones is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology and French Studies at New York University and Chair of the Board of Directors at the Audre Lorde Project: A Community Organizing Center for LGBTST People of Color in New York City.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Blackness beyond Boundaries: Navigating the Political Economies of Global Inequality	p. 1
Theorizing Race in a Global Context	p. 9
Race and Globalization: Racialization from Below	p. 11
Global Apartheid, Foreign Policy, and Human Rights	p. 19
The Modern World Racial System	p. 41
The Ongoing Contestation over Nationhood	p. 55
Interrogating Race and Racism in the Americas	p. 63
A Tale of Two Barrios: Puerto Rican Youth and the Politics of Belonging	p. 65
Reinventing the Jamaican Political System	p. 73
Afro-Colombia: A Case for Pan-African Analysis	p. 87
Mutual Inspiration: Radicals in Transnational Space	p. 99
The Havana Afrocubano Movement and the Harlem Renaissance: The Role of the Intellectual in the Formation of Racial and National Identity	p. 101
Eslanda Goode Robeson's African Journey: The Politics of Identification and Representation in the African Diaspora	p. 115
Du Bois's Double Consciousness versus Latin American Exceptionalism: Joe Arroyo, Salsa, and Negritude	p. 135
"Long Live Third World Unity! Long Live Internationalism": Huey P. Newton's Revolutionary Intercommunalism	p. 149
"A Free Black Mind Is a Concealed Weapon": Institutions and Social Movements in the African Diaspora	p. 175
Europe and Asia on the Color Line	p. 189
Tokyo Bound: African Americans and Japan Confront White Supremacy	p. 191
Femme Negritude: Jane Nardal, La Depeche Africaine, and the Francophone New Negro	p. 205
Regionalism against Racism: The TransEurope Struggle for Racial Equality	p. 215
Crafting Resistance: Identity, Narrative, and Agency	p. 227
Salvaging Lives in the African Diaspora: Anthropology, Ethnography, and Women's Narratives	p. 229
Going Back to Our Own: Interpreting Malcolm X's Transition from "Black Asiatic" to "Afro-American"	p. 245
Linking African and Asian in Passing and Passage	p. 265
Out of Chaos: Afro-Colombian Peace Communities and the Realities of War	p. 281
Race, Power, and Politics in Africa	p. 291
African American Expatriates in Ghana and the Black Radical Tradition	p. 293
"Crimes of History": Senegalese Soccer and the Forensics of Slavery	p. 301
Nuclear Imperialism and the Pan-African Struggle for Peace and Freedom: Ghana, 1959-1962	p. 333
About the Editors	p. 355
About the Contributors	p. 357
Index	p. 363
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