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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Leigh Raiford and Heike Raphael-Hernandez

Part One | Making Blackness Serve
1. Containing Bodies—Enscandalizing Enslavement: Stasis and Movement at the Juncture of Slave-Ship Images and Texts /Carsten Junker
2. Russian Blackamoors: From Grand-Manner Portraiture to Alphabet in Pictures / Irina Novikova
3. Migrating Images of the Black Body Politic and the Sovereign State: Haiti in the 1850s / Karen N. Salt
4. Playing the White Knight: Badin, Chess, and Black Self-Fashioning in Eighteenth-Century Sweden / Joachim Östlund
5. Making Blackness Serve China: The Image of Afro-Asia in Chinese Political Posters / Robeson Taj Frazier

Part Two | Dreaming Diasporas
6. The Glamorous One-Two Punch: Visualizing Celebrity, Masculinity, and Boxer Alfonso Teofilo Brown in Early Twentieth-Century Paris / Lyneise Williams
7. The Here and Now of Eslanda Robeson’s African Journey / Leigh Raiford
8. Black and Cuba: An Interview with Filmmaker Robin J. Hayes / Robin J. Hayes and Julia Roth
9. Return to Which Roots? Interracial Documemoirs by Macky Alston, Eliaichi Kimaro, and Mo Asumang / Cedric Essi
10. Dreaming Diasporas / Cheryl Finley

Part Three | Differently Black
11. Differently Black: The Fourth Great Migration and Black Catholic Saints in Ramin Bahrani’s Goodbye Solo and Jim Sheridan’s In America / Charles I. Nero
12. Coloured in South Africa: An Interview with Filmmaker Kiersten Dunbar Chace and Photojournalist Rushay Booysen / Sonja Georgi and Pia Wiegmink
13. When Home Meets Diaspora at the Door of No Return: Cinematic Encounters in Sankofa and Little Senegal / Heike Raphael-Hernandez
14. Of Plastic Ducks and Cockle Pickers: African Atlantic Artists and Critiques of Bonded Labor across Chronologies / Alan Rice
15. At Home, Online: Affective Exchange and the Diasporic Body in Ghanaian Internet Video / Reginold A. Royston

Part 4 | Afrofabulation
16. Habeas Ficta: Fictive Ethnicity, Affecting Representations, and Slaves on Screen / Tavia Nyong’o
17. The Black Body as Photographic Image: Video Light in Postcolonial Jamaica / Krista Thompson
18. The Not-Yet Justice League: Fantasy, Redress, and Transatlantic Black History on the Comic Book Page / Darieck Scott

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Index

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      Publisher: University of Washington Press
      Publication Date: 20/03/2017
      ISBN13: 9780295999562, 978-0295999562
      ISBN10: 029599956X
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      Social and cultural history Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction: Leigh Raiford and Heike Raphael-Hernandez

      Part One | Making Blackness Serve
      1. Containing Bodies—Enscandalizing Enslavement: Stasis and Movement at the Juncture of Slave-Ship Images and Texts /Carsten Junker
      2. Russian Blackamoors: From Grand-Manner Portraiture to Alphabet in Pictures / Irina Novikova
      3. Migrating Images of the Black Body Politic and the Sovereign State: Haiti in the 1850s / Karen N. Salt
      4. Playing the White Knight: Badin, Chess, and Black Self-Fashioning in Eighteenth-Century Sweden / Joachim Östlund
      5. Making Blackness Serve China: The Image of Afro-Asia in Chinese Political Posters / Robeson Taj Frazier

      Part Two | Dreaming Diasporas
      6. The Glamorous One-Two Punch: Visualizing Celebrity, Masculinity, and Boxer Alfonso Teofilo Brown in Early Twentieth-Century Paris / Lyneise Williams
      7. The Here and Now of Eslanda Robeson’s African Journey / Leigh Raiford
      8. Black and Cuba: An Interview with Filmmaker Robin J. Hayes / Robin J. Hayes and Julia Roth
      9. Return to Which Roots? Interracial Documemoirs by Macky Alston, Eliaichi Kimaro, and Mo Asumang / Cedric Essi
      10. Dreaming Diasporas / Cheryl Finley

      Part Three | Differently Black
      11. Differently Black: The Fourth Great Migration and Black Catholic Saints in Ramin Bahrani’s Goodbye Solo and Jim Sheridan’s In America / Charles I. Nero
      12. Coloured in South Africa: An Interview with Filmmaker Kiersten Dunbar Chace and Photojournalist Rushay Booysen / Sonja Georgi and Pia Wiegmink
      13. When Home Meets Diaspora at the Door of No Return: Cinematic Encounters in Sankofa and Little Senegal / Heike Raphael-Hernandez
      14. Of Plastic Ducks and Cockle Pickers: African Atlantic Artists and Critiques of Bonded Labor across Chronologies / Alan Rice
      15. At Home, Online: Affective Exchange and the Diasporic Body in Ghanaian Internet Video / Reginold A. Royston

      Part 4 | Afrofabulation
      16. Habeas Ficta: Fictive Ethnicity, Affecting Representations, and Slaves on Screen / Tavia Nyong’o
      17. The Black Body as Photographic Image: Video Light in Postcolonial Jamaica / Krista Thompson
      18. The Not-Yet Justice League: Fantasy, Redress, and Transatlantic Black History on the Comic Book Page / Darieck Scott

      List of Contributors
      Index

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