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Author Wright, Michelle M., 1968-

Title Becoming Black : creating identity in the African diaspora / Michelle M. Wright.

Publication Info. Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.

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 Moore Stacks  HT1581 .W69 2004    Available  ---
Description ix, 280 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-268) and index.
Contents Introduction : Being and becoming Black in the West -- The European and American invention of the Black Other -- The trope of masking in the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and Aimé Césaire -- Some women disappear : Frantz Fanon's legacy in Black nationalist thought and the Black (male) subject -- How I got ovah : masking to motherhood and the diasporic Black female subject -- The urban diaspora : Black subjectivities in Berlin, London, and Paris -- Epilogue : If the Black is a subject, can the subaltern speak?
Subject Black people -- Race identity.
Black people -- Race identity.
Identity (Psychology)
Identity (Psychology)
African diaspora.
African diaspora.
ISBN 0822332884 paperback alkaline paper
0822332116 cloth alkaline paper