Historicizing the Images and Politics of the Afropolitan (Paperback)

Much of the scholarly debate around the "Afropolitan"-the image of mobility, cultural production, and consumerism in Africa and the African diaspora-has focused on the elitism associated with the concept. Most critiques object to how the ideals of transnationalism and mobility inevitably refer to Western models of leisure and style, and Afropolitanism has rarely been contextualized in global African diaspora histories. This volume of written and photographic essays is one of the first sustained historical treatments of the Afropolitan. Contributors analyze the concept in a variety of contexts: itinerant artisans in fourteenth-century southern Africa, sixteenth-century African diaspora communities in Latin America, West African kingdoms and port cities in the waning decades of the Atlantic slave trade, a hair salon in twenty-first-century Paris, a road trip through Bangladesh. By engaging with the Afropolitan as a historical phenomenon, the authors highlight new methods and theories for analyzing global diasporas. Contributors. Paulina L. Alberto, Antonia Carcelen-Estrada, Rosa Carrasquillo, Elizabeth Fretwell, Dawn Fulton, Mathangi Krishnamurthy, Patricia Martins Marcos, Ndubueze Mbah, Hector Mediavilla, Emeka Okereke, Melina Pappademos, Aniova Prandy, David Schoenbrun, Lorelle Semley

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2023
First published:	2022
Editors:	Rosa Carrasquillo • Melina Pappademos • Lorelle Semley
Dimensions:	179 x 255 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	250
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-1974-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General Books > History > African history > General
LSN:	1-4780-1974-3
Barcode:	9781478019749

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