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Book SynopsisThe port city of Liverpool, England, is home to one of the oldest Black communities in Britain. This title analyzes how this worldly origin story supports an avowedly local Black politic and identity. It also examines the rise and consequent dilemmas of Black identity.
Trade Review"Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail is one of the most nuanced, sophisticated, and ethnographically rigorous works on the process of racial formation available, stretching the analysis of 'race' well beyond the by now familiar somatic and political points of reference and theoretical debates. It is also an important and original contribution to our understanding of the spatial constitution of subjectivity and the African diaspora in a fascinating and little-researched ethnographic location." - Steven Gregory, Columbia University, author of Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community; "This eloquently written work engages with a variety of issues encompassing not just the discipline of anthropology but also sociology, race and ethnic studies, and black history." - Diane Frost, University of Liverpool, author of Work and Community among West African Migrant Workers since the Nineteenth Century"
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*CONTENTS, pg. vii*PREFACE, pg. ix*CHAPTER ONE Setting Sail, pg. 1*CHAPTER TWO. Black Liverpool, Black America, and the Gendering of Diasporic Space, pg. 34*CHAPTER THREE. 1981, pg. 59*CHAPTER FOUR. Genealogies: Place, Race, and Kinship, pg. 70*CHAPTER FIVE. Diaspora and Its Discontents: A Trilogy, pg. 97*CHAPTER SIX. My City, My Self: A Folk Phenomenology, pg. 129*CHAPTER SEVEN. A Slave to History: Local Whiteness in a Black Atlantic Port, pg. 161*CHAPTER EIGHT. The Ghost of Muriel Fletcher, pg. 187*CHAPTER NINE. Local Women and Global Men: The Liverpool That Was, pg. 215*POSTSCRIPT: The Leaving of Liverpool, pg. 243*NOTES, pg. 250*REFERENCES, pg. 275*INDEX, pg. 297
