Becoming Black creating identity in the African diaspora
Wright, Michelle M., 1968-
Becoming Black creating identity in the African diaspora Michelle M. Wright - Durham Duke University Press 2004 - ix, 280 pages 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-268) and index
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?
Discusses the commonalities and differences in how Black writers and thinkers from the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, France, Great Britain, and Germany have responded to white European and American claims about Black consciousness. Traces more than a century of debate on Black subjectivity between intellectuals of African descent and white philosophers and highlights how feminist writers have challenged patriarchal theories of Black identity. [back cover]
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2003012318
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006907124 Uk
Black people--Race identity
Identity (Psychology)
African diaspora
Noirs--Identité ethnique
Identité (Psychologie)
Africains à l'étranger
African diaspora
Blacks--Race identity
Identity (Psychology)
Ethnische Identität
Schwarze
Westliche Welt
Schwarze
HT1581 WRI / .W69 2004
HT 1581 WRI
Becoming Black creating identity in the African diaspora Michelle M. Wright - Durham Duke University Press 2004 - ix, 280 pages 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-268) and index
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?
Discusses the commonalities and differences in how Black writers and thinkers from the United States, the Caribbean, Africa, France, Great Britain, and Germany have responded to white European and American claims about Black consciousness. Traces more than a century of debate on Black subjectivity between intellectuals of African descent and white philosophers and highlights how feminist writers have challenged patriarchal theories of Black identity. [back cover]
0822332116 9780822332114 0822332884 9780822332886
2003012318
GBA4Z2738 bnb
006907124 Uk
Black people--Race identity
Identity (Psychology)
African diaspora
Noirs--Identité ethnique
Identité (Psychologie)
Africains à l'étranger
African diaspora
Blacks--Race identity
Identity (Psychology)
Ethnische Identität
Schwarze
Westliche Welt
Schwarze
HT1581 WRI / .W69 2004
HT 1581 WRI