Becoming Black : Creating Identity in the African Diaspora /

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A theoretical troubling of the assumptions of uniformity in Blackness, comparing writings by and about African diasporic subjects from the U.S., Britain, France, and Germany.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wright, Michelle M., 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Svarta författare.
Afrikansk diaspora.
Ethnische Identität
Identity (Psychology)
Black people > Race identity.
African diaspora.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Black Studies (Global)
Africains > Pays etrangers.
Identite (Psychologie)
Personnes noires > Identite ethnique.
Schwarze.
Westliche Welt
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Being and becoming Black in the West
  • The European and American invention of the Black Other
  • The trope of masking in the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Leopold Sedar Senghor, and Aime Cesaire
  • Some women disappear : Frantz Fanon's legacy in Black nationalist thought and the Black (male) subject
  • How I got ovah : masking to motherhood and the diasporic Black female subject
  • The urban diaspora : Black subjectivities in Berlin, London, and Paris
  • Epilogue : If the Black is a subject, can the subaltern speak?

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