Deferred dreams, defiant struggles : critical perspectives on Blackness, belonging, and civil rights /

This volume sheds light on how to construe the contemporary political vicissitudes of the Black experience and the ongoing struggle for agency, belonging, and civil rights. It offers a fresh look at familiar concepts such as activism and belonging and models innovative approaches for studying the Af...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Johnson, Violet Showers (Editor ), Graml, Gundolf (Editor ), Williams Dockery, Patricia (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2018.
Colección:FORECAAST.
Temas:
2000-2099
Black people > Social conditions.
Black people > Europe > Social conditions.
Race > Religious aspects.
African Americans > Civil rights.
African Americans > Social conditions > 21st century.
Race > Aspect religieux.
Noirs américains > Droits.
Noirs américains > Conditions sociales > 21e siècle.
Personnes noires > Conditions sociales.
Personnes noires > Europe > Conditions sociales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Race > Religious aspects
African Americans > Social conditions
African Americans > Civil rights
Black people > Social conditions
Europe
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction: Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles; Diaspora, Displacement, Marginalization, and Collective Identities; 2 Josephine Baker's Routes and Roots: Mobility, Belonging, and Activism in the Atlantic World; 3 Beyond the Ethnographic Other: Pan-African Activism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; 4 Black Sojourners in the Métropole and in the Homeland: Challenges of Otherness in Calixthe Beyala's Loukoum: The "Little Prince" of Belleville and Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane
  • Performing Identities, Reclaiming the Self5 Staging the Scaffold: Criminal Conversion Narratives of the Late Eighteenth Century; 6 The Plays of Carlton and Barbara Molette: The Transformative Power of African-American Theater; Moved to Act: Civil Rights Activism in the US and Beyond; 7 "Together We Can Build a Nation of Love and Integration": The 1965 North Shore Summer Project for Fair Housing in Chicago's Northern Suburbs; 8 Redrawing Borders of Belonging in a Narrow Nation: Afro-Chilean Activism in the Hinterlands of Afro-Latin America

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