{"product_id":"becoming-black-9780822332886","title":"Becoming Black","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA theoretical troubling of the assumptions of uniformity in Blackness, comparing writings by and about African diasporic subjects from the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An important book for scholars of the African diaspora, \u003ci\u003eBecoming Black\u003c\/i\u003e puts the word ‘diaspora’ back into African American studies. There are bold new conversations here.”—Sharon Holland, author of \u003ci\u003eRaising the Dead: Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Becoming Black \u003c\/i\u003eyields a complex and differentiated understanding of Enlightenment discourses on race and offers a framework for comparing the different models of subjecthood that underwrote the varying histories of colonialism and slavery. It is unique in that it brings Afro-German and Afro-French writings into dialogue with Afro-British and African American texts. There is no existing study of the African diaspora that brings such a range of national traditions together.”—Madhu Dubey, author of \u003ci\u003eSigns and Cities: Black Literary Postmodernism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Being and Becoming Black in the West 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. The European and American Invention of the Black Other\u003cbr\u003e 27\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Trope of Masking in the Works of W. E. B. Du Bois, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Aime Cesaire 66\u003cbr\u003e 3. Some Women Disappear: Frantz Fanon's Legacy in Black Nationalist Thought and the Black (Male) Subject\u003cbr\u003e 111\u003cbr\u003e 4. \u003ci\u003eHow I Got Ovah:\u003c\/i\u003e Masking to Motherhood and the Diasporic Black Female Subject 136\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Urban Diaspora: Black Subjectivities in Berlin, London, and Paris\u003cbr\u003e 183\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: If the Black Is a Subject, Can the Subaltern Speak? 229\u003cbr\u003e Notes 233\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 261\u003cbr\u003e Index 269","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406034968919,"sku":"9780822332886","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822332886.jpg?v=1730494319","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/becoming-black-9780822332886","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}