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This cutting-edge piece of scholarship studies the invisibility of
the black migrants in popular consciousness and intellectual
discourse in the United States through the interrogation of actual
members of this community.
This cutting-edge piece of scholarship studies the invisibility of the black migrants in popular consciousness and intellectual discourse in the United States through the interrogation of actual members of this community.
Private Lives, Public Histories brings together diverse methods
from archaeology and cultural anthropology, enabling us to glean
rare information on private lives from the historical record. The
chapters span geographic areas to present recent ethnohistorical
research that advances our knowledge of the connections between the
public and private domains and the significance of these
connections for understanding the past as a lived experience, both
historically and in a contemporary sense. We discuss how the use of
different sources-e.g., public records, personal journals, material
culture, the built environment, letters, public performances,
etc.-can reveal different types of information about past cultural
contexts, as well as private sentiments about official culture and
society. Through an exploration of sites as varied as homes,
factories, plantations, markets, and tourism attractions we address
the public significance of private sentiments, the resilience of
bodies, and gendered interactions in historical contexts. In doing
so, this book highlights linkages between private lives and public
settings that have allowed people to continue to exist within,
adapt to, and/or resist dominant cultural narratives.
Global Circuits of Blackness is a sophisticated analysis of the
interlocking diasporic connections between Africa, Europe, the
Caribbean, and the Americas. A diverse and gifted group of scholars
delve into the contradictions of diasporic identity by examining at
close range the encounters of different forms of blackness
converging on the global scene. Contributors examine the many ways
blacks have been misrecognized in a variety of contexts. They also
explore how, as a direct result of transnational networking and
processes of friction, blacks have deployed diasporic consciousness
to interpellate forms of white supremacy that have naturalized
black inferiority, inhumanity, and abjection. Various essays
document the antagonism between African Americans and Africans
regarding heritage tourism in West Africa, discuss the interaction
between different forms of blackness in Toronto's Caribana
Festival, probe the impact of the Civil Rights movement in America
on diasporic communities elsewhere, and assess the anxiety about
HIV and AIDS within black communities. The volume demonstrates that
diaspora is a floating revelation of black consciousness that
brings together, in a single space, dimensions of difference in
forms and content of representations, practices, and meanings of
blackness. Diaspora imposes considerable flexibility in what would
otherwise be place-bound fixities. Contributors are Marlon M.
Bailey, Jung Ran Forte, Reena N. Goldthree, Percy C. Hintzen,
Lyndon Phillip, Andrea Queeley, Jean Muteba Rahier, Stephane
Robolin, and Felipe Smith.
Private Lives, Public Histories brings together diverse methods
from archaeology and cultural anthropology, enabling us to glean
rare information on private lives from the historical record. The
chapters span geographic areas to present recent ethnohistorical
research that advances our knowledge of the connections between the
public and private domains and the significance of these
connections for understanding the past as a lived experience, both
historically and in a contemporary sense. We discuss how the use of
different sources-e.g., public records, personal journals, material
culture, the built environment, letters, public performances,
etc.-can reveal different types of information about past cultural
contexts, as well as private sentiments about official culture and
society. Through an exploration of sites as varied as homes,
factories, plantations, markets, and tourism attractions we address
the public significance of private sentiments, the resilience of
bodies, and gendered interactions in historical contexts. In doing
so, this book highlights linkages between private lives and public
settings that have allowed people to continue to exist within,
adapt to, and/or resist dominant cultural narratives.
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