| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 185 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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FORECAAST series
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FORECAAST.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction: Deferred Dreams, Defiant Struggles; Diaspora, Displacement, Marginalization, and Collective Identities; 2 Josephine Baker's Routes and Roots: Mobility, Belonging, and Activism in the Atlantic World; 3 Beyond the Ethnographic Other: Pan-African Activism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century; 4 Black Sojourners in the Métropole and in the Homeland: Challenges of Otherness in Calixthe Beyala's Loukoum: The "Little Prince" of Belleville and Myriam Warner-Vieyra's Juletane |
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Performing Identities, Reclaiming the Self5 Staging the Scaffold: Criminal Conversion Narratives of the Late Eighteenth Century; 6 The Plays of Carlton and Barbara Molette: The Transformative Power of African-American Theater; 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; 8 Redrawing Borders of Belonging in a Narrow Nation: Afro-Chilean Activism in the Hinterlands of Afro-Latin America |
| Summary |
This volume sheds light on how to construe the contemporary political vicissitudes of the Black experience and the ongoing struggle for agency, belonging, and civil rights. It offers a fresh look at familiar concepts such as activism and belonging and models innovative approaches for studying the African diasporic experience in the 21st century. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Black people -- Social conditions.
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Black people -- Social conditions. |
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Black people -- Europe -- Social conditions.
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Black people. |
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Europe. |
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Social conditions. |
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Race -- Religious aspects.
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African Americans -- Civil rights.
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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African Americans -- Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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Race -- Religious aspects. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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African Americans -- Civil rights. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
| Chronological Term |
2000-2099 |
| Added Author |
Johnson, Violet Showers, editor.
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Graml, Gundolf, editor.
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Williams Dockery, Patricia, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781786948205 (electronic book) |
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1786948206 (electronic book) |
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9781786945006 (electronic book) |
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1786945002 (electronic book) |
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9781786940339 |
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