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In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the
experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica,
where they address the perils and disappointments of American
racism by looking for intimacy, happiness, and a connection to
their racial identities. Through their encounters with Jamaican
online communities and their participation in trips organized by
Girlfriend Tours International, the women construct notions of
racial, sexual, and emotional belonging by forming relationships
with Jamaican men and other "girlfriends." These relationships
allow the women to exercise agency and find happiness in ways that
resist the damaging intersections of racism and patriarchy in the
United States. However, while the women require a spiritual and
virtual connection to Jamaica in order to live happily in the
United States, their notion of happiness relies on travel, which
requires leveraging their national privilege as American citizens.
Williams's theorization of "emotional transnationalism" and the
construction of affect across diasporic distance attends to the
connections between race, gender, and affect while highlighting how
affective relationships mark nationalized and gendered power
differentials within the African diaspora.
In The Pursuit of Happiness Bianca C. Williams traces the
experiences of African American women as they travel to Jamaica,
where they address the perils and disappointments of American
racism by looking for intimacy, happiness, and a connection to
their racial identities. Through their encounters with Jamaican
online communities and their participation in trips organized by
Girlfriend Tours International, the women construct notions of
racial, sexual, and emotional belonging by forming relationships
with Jamaican men and other "girlfriends." These relationships
allow the women to exercise agency and find happiness in ways that
resist the damaging intersections of racism and patriarchy in the
United States. However, while the women require a spiritual and
virtual connection to Jamaica in order to live happily in the
United States, their notion of happiness relies on travel, which
requires leveraging their national privilege as American citizens.
Williams's theorization of "emotional transnationalism" and the
construction of affect across diasporic distance attends to the
connections between race, gender, and affect while highlighting how
affective relationships mark nationalized and gendered power
differentials within the African diaspora.
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