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

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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