"Take a tour around Black Liverpool, where race, sexuality, nation,
and gender emerge from docksides, demonstrations, and dancehalls.
Jacqueline Brown's "Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail" presses forward
a new anthropology of place, in which place emerges with a cultural
agency of its own. Blacks become 'Liverpool born, ' and the local
is simultaneously global and so very English. In this compelling
account, Liverpool's place--and the making of race--come to
life."--Anna Tsing, author of "Friction: An Ethnography of Global
Connection" and "In the Realm of the Diamond Queen"
""Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail" is one of the most nuanced,
sophisticated, and ethnographically rigorous works on the process
of racial formation available, stretching the analysis of 'race'
well beyond the by now familiar somatic and political points of
reference and theoretical debates. It is also an important and
original contribution to our understanding of the spatial
constitution of subjectivity and the African diaspora in a
fascinating and little-researched ethnographic location."--Steven
Gregory, Columbia University, author of "Black Corona: Race and the
Politics of Place in an Urban Community"
"This eloquently written work engages with a variety of issues
encompassing not just the discipline of anthropology but also
sociology, race and ethnic studies, and black history. While
acknowledging the contributions of others, Brown also contributes
something new, both in terms of the theoretical underpinning she
employs to the subject and in the fascinating ethnographic details
she so expertly draws out of her subjects. This material is
exciting and very significant."--Diane Frost, University of
Liverpool, author of "Work and Community among West African Migrant
Workers since the Nineteenth Century"
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