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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.
Out of History brings together exciting and innovative work in
History and the Humanities. Drawing upon papers which have been
presented at the South African Contemporary History and Humanities
Seminar at the University of the Western Cape, the book reflects
upon how this space fashioned new histories of the South African
past over the last twenty years. Written by leading scholars in
fields of visual history, public history, heritage, linguistics,
oral history and postcolonial studies, the contributions address
critical questions about the production of academic knowledge and
the status of the Humanities in the post-apartheid present. Through
offering a critique of nationalist narratives, the chapters explore
the limits of historical representations, providing new paths to
rethink memory, the archive, creative writing, disciplinary
methodologies and the legacies of colonialism.
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