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Book SynopsisLocating and connecting diasporic identities on the global scene
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Global Circuits of Blackness pushes the envelope on the theorizing of race in an interconnected global network. The editors have assembled a fresh intervention on the politics of globalization by synthesizing eras of black cultural theory with the pressures of contemporary global displacements."--May Joseph, author of
Nomadic Identities: The Performance of CitizenshipTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments vii
Introduction. Theorizing the African Diaspora: Metaphor, Miscognition, and Self-Recognition ix
Percy C. Hintzen and Jean Muteba RahierI. Practices of Exclusion and Misrecognition 1. The African Diaspora as Imagined Community 3
Felipe Smith 2. The Ecuadorian Victories in the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the Ideological Biology of (Non-) Citizenship 29
Jean Muteba RahierII. The Emergence of Diasporic Consciousness 3. Race and Diasporic Imaginings among West Indians in the San Francisco Bay Area 49
Percy C. Hintzen 4. Continuity, Change, and Authenticity in Toronto's 1990 Caribana Concert 74
Lyndon Phillip 5. Rethinking the African Diaspora and HIV/AIDS Prevention from the Perspective of Ballroom Culture 96
Marlon M. Bailey 6. Remapping South African and African American Cultural Imaginaries 127
Stephane Robolin 7. Amy Jacques Garvey, Theodore Bilbo, and the Paradoxes of Black Nationalism 152
Reena N. Goldthree 8. Diaspora Homecoming, Vodun Ancestry, and the Ambiguities of Transnational Belongings in the Republic of Benin 174
Jung Ran Forte 9.
Somos Negros Finos: Anglophone Caribbean Cultural Citizenship in Revolutionary Cuba 201
Andrea Queeley References 223
Contributors 255
Index 258
