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Foreword ix
Philomena Essed
Preface xvii
Darlene Clark Hine
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction: The Empire Strikes Back xxiii
Stephen Small
Section1. Historical Dimensions of Blackness in Europe
1. The Emergence of Afro-Europe: A Preliminary Sketch
3
Allison Blakely
2. Blacks in Early Modern Europe: New Research from the
Netherlands 29
Dienke Hondius
3. Now You See It, Now You Don't: Josephine Baker's Films of the
1930s and the Problem of Color 48
Eileen Julien
4. Pictures of "US"? Blackness, Diaspora, and the Afro-German
Subject 63
Tina M. Campt
5. The Conundrum of Geography, Europe d'outre mer, and
Transcontinental Diasporic Identity 84
T. Sharpley-Whiting and Tiffany Ruby Patterson
Section 2. Race and Blackness in Perspective: France, Germany,
and Italy
6. "Black (American) Paris" and the French Outer-Cities: The Race
Question and Questioning Solidarity 95
Trica Danielle Keaton
7. Black Italia: Contemporary Migrant Writers from
Africa 119
Alessandra Di Maio
8. Talking Race in Color-Blind France: Equality Denied, "Blackness"
Reclaimed 145
Fred Constant
9. My Volk to Come: Peoplehood in Recent Diaspora Discourse and
Afro-German Popular Music 161
Alexander G. Weheliye
10. No Green Pastures: The African Americanization of
France 180
Tyler Stovall
Section 3. Theorizing, (Re)presenting, and (Re)imagining
Blackness In Europe
11. Black Europe and the African Diaspora: A Discourse on
Location 201
Jacqueline Nassy Brown
12. Theorizing Black Europe and African Diaspora: Implications for
Citizenship, Nativism, and Xenophobia 212
Kwame Nimako and Stephen Small
13. The Audacious Josephine Baker: Stardom, Cinema,
Paris 238
Terri Francis
14. Pale by Comparison: Black Liberal Humanism and the Postwar Era
in the African Diaspora 260
Michelle M. Wright
15. Another Dream of a Common Language: Imagining Black
Europe... 277
Gloria Wekker
Afterword: Black Europe's Undecidability 291
Barnor Hesse
Notes on Contributors 305
Index 311
Multifaceted analyses of the African diaspora in Europe
Darlene Clark Hine is Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University. Trica Danielle Keaton is an Associate Professor in African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. Stephen Small is an Associate Professor in African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.
"An elegant, imaginative, and penetrating intervention in the ethnographies and theories of race and community in the African diaspora. A masterful contribution to the growing field of Black European studies and to diaspora studies." Mamadou Diouf, co-editor of New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal: Conversion, Migration, Wealth, Power, and Femininity "Enormously stimulating, this volume is essential reading for those interested in exploring the evolving story of the Black presence worldwide."--David Barry Gaspar, co-editor of Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas
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