Description
Book SynopsisWhat are the ways in which the study of Black life becomes a field of knowledge, institutionalized and at the same time forming epistemological modes of inclusion and exclusion within academe? Notes from the Diaspora tends to these distinctive forms of Black life as they become situated within particular sociocultural networks, institutions, organizations, and community establishments, conveying bearings generative of synergies in the quest of solidarity through Diasporic memory. The essays query the circumstances through which Black life comes together, remains whole, although sometimes fragile under historical pressures, to produce public forces constitutive of knowledge, subjectivities, and multiple modes of identification which come to be organized through a digitized politics of relations in sociomaterial forms. As Black life traverses through different Diasporic pathways, the author responds to how connections with place come to be, and what social networks are formed,
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments – Introduction: Notes from the Diaspora – Writing Black Life: Theoretical Underpinnings – Locating Black Life within Colonial Modernity: Decolonial Notes – Politics of Urban Diasporized Youth and Possibilities for Belonging – Diaspora, Citizenry, Becoming Human and the Education of African-Canadian Youth – The Race to Modernity: Understanding Culture through the Diasporic-Self – Dialogue with Fanon.
