Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
INTRODUCTION
1. Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles - Violet Showers Johnson, Gundolf Graml and Patricia Williams Lessane
DIASPORA, DISPLACEMENT, MARGINALIZATION AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITIES
2. Josephine Baker’s Routes and Roots: Mobility, Belonging and Activism in the Atlantic World - Katharina Gerund
3. Beyond the Ethnographic Other: Pan-African Activism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Thomas Smith
4. Black Sojourners in “La Métrople” and in the Fatherland: Challenges of Otherness in Calixthe Beyala’s Le Petit Prince de Belleville and Myriam Warner-Vieyra’s Juletane - Philip Ojo
PERFORMING IDENTITIES, RECLAIMING THE SELF
5. Staging the Scaffold: Criminal Conversion Narratives of the Late Eighteenth Century - Carsten Junker
6. The Plays of Carlton and Barbara Molette: The Transformative Power of African American Theatre
Silvia Pilar Castro Borrego
MOVED TO ACT: CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISM IN THE US AND BEYOND
7. “Together We Can Build a Nation of Love and Integration”: The 1965 North Shore Summer Project for Fair Housing in Chicago’s Northern Suburbs - Mary Barr
8. Redrawing Borders of Belonging in a Narrow Nation: Afro-Chilean Activism at the Hinterlands of Afro-Latin America - Sara Busdiecker
9. Lowcountry, High Demands: The Struggle for Quality Education in Charleston, South Carolina - Jon Hale and Clerc Cooper
Index

About the Author

Violet Showers Johnson is Associate Dean and Professor of History in the College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University. She is author of 'The Other Black Bostonians: West Indians in Boston, 1900-1950' (Indiana University Press, 2006); co-author of 'African & American: West Africans in Post-Civil Rights America' (NYU Press, 2014); and co-editor of 'Western Fictions, Black Realities: Meanings of Blackness and Modernities' (Lit Verlag and Michigan State University Press, 2012).
Gundolf Graml is Associate Professor and Director of German Studies at Agnes Scott College, Decatur, Georgia, USA.
Patricia Williams Lessane is Executive Director of The College of Charleston’s Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture, and tenured librarian at Addlestone Library.