Afro-Sweden

Ryan Thomas Skinner is associate professor of music and African American and African studies at the Ohio State University. He is author of Bamako Sounds: The Afropolitan Ethics of Malian Music (Minnesota, 2015).Jason Timbuktu DiakitÉ is one of Sweden’s most well-known hip-hop artists and author of the critically acclaimed memoir A Drop of Midnight.

• ForewordJason Timbuktu DiakitÉA Note on OrthographyIntroduction: Race, Culture, and Diaspora in Afro-SwedenPart I. Remembering1. Invisible People2. A Colder Congo3. Walking While BlackPart II. Renaissance4. Articulating Afro-Sweden5. The Politics of Race and Diaspora6. The Art of RenaissanceEpilogueAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

"A remarkable work in both its content and style, Afro-Sweden compels us to reconsider our understandings of race, place, and identity, all while highlighting the presence of a population whose cultural vitality and roots are too often overlooked."-Benjamin R. Teitelbaum, author of War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right"Ryan Skinner’s research and writing are among those rare artifacts bringing the Afro-Swedish community to life, informing our own children, even ourselves, of that vital reminder, that we are here, that we have been here for quite some time, that we belong to the global African diaspora, that our lives matter."-Jason Timbuktu DiakitÉ, from the Foreword "[Afro-Sweden] is such a truthful explanation of the dilemma African descendants have here in Sweden… It is such a valuable contribution to efforts to racial integration here in Sweden."-Madubuko DiakitÉ, author of Not Even in Your Dreams: A Story about Children, Parents, and Dreams   "In Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country, Ryan Skinner explores the diverse voices and experiences of the American and Black diaspora in Sweden. The book not only shows the pervasive nature of white supremacy in Swedish society but also pays testimony to the richness of Afro-Swedish life. "-LSE Review of Books   "Afro-Sweden: Becoming Black in a Color-Blind Country is convincing in its presentation of how ‘Afro Swedes resist politics of erasure that normative color-blindness prescribes, by affirming a doubly conscious Afro-diasporic and Swedish being-in-the world’ (233). Therefore, the book is informative to those both familiar or not with the burgeoning field of racial studies in Sweden."-Ethnic and Racial Studies