Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

• PT. 1. THE MAKING OF A RACE (MAN)1. The view from above: Placido through the eyes of the Cuban colonial government and white abolitionists2. The view from next door: Placido through black abolitionists' eyesPT. 2. BOTH (RACE) AND (NATION)?3. On being black and Cuban: race, nation, and romanticism in the poetry of Placido4. "We intend to stay here": the international shadows in Frederick Douglass's representations of African American community5. "More a Haitian than an American": Frederick Douglass and the black world beyond the United StatesPT. 3. NEGATING NATION, REJECTING RACE6. A slave's cosmopolitanism: Mary Prince, a West Indian slave, and the geography of identity7. Disidentification as identity: Juan Francisco Manzano and the flight from blackness

"Black Cosmopolitanism seeks to tell a story about the complex hemispheric context in which multiple public discourses of blackness emerged in the work of black intellectuals, writing and publishing throughout a nineteenth century shaped by the cataclysmic impact of the Haitian revolution . . . [The book reflects] the richness of new pathways in a hemispheric American studies, moving outward to explore philosophies of race and histories of racial identity that traveled back and forth between colonial and imperial worlds." (American Literature) "Black Cosmopolitanism presents a strong, innovative case for looking back in order to look forward. . . .Nwankwo's book highlights its relevance to a varied cross section of disciplines that include, but are not limited to, African-American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Latin American Studies, Afro-Hispanic Literature, and History of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries." (Journal of Haitian Studies)

Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

• PT. 1. THE MAKING OF A RACE (MAN)1. The view from above: Placido through the eyes of the Cuban colonial government and white abolitionists2. The view from next door: Placido through black abolitionists' eyesPT. 2. BOTH (RACE) AND (NATION)?3. On being black and Cuban: race, nation, and romanticism in the poetry of Placido4. "We intend to stay here": the international shadows in Frederick Douglass's representations of African American community5. "More a Haitian than an American": Frederick Douglass and the black world beyond the United StatesPT. 3. NEGATING NATION, REJECTING RACE6. A slave's cosmopolitanism: Mary Prince, a West Indian slave, and the geography of identity7. Disidentification as identity: Juan Francisco Manzano and the flight from blackness

"Black Cosmopolitanism seeks to tell a story about the complex hemispheric context in which multiple public discourses of blackness emerged in the work of black intellectuals, writing and publishing throughout a nineteenth century shaped by the cataclysmic impact of the Haitian revolution . . . [The book reflects] the richness of new pathways in a hemispheric American studies, moving outward to explore philosophies of race and histories of racial identity that traveled back and forth between colonial and imperial worlds." (American Literature) "Black Cosmopolitanism presents a strong, innovative case for looking back in order to look forward. . . .Nwankwo's book highlights its relevance to a varied cross section of disciplines that include, but are not limited to, African-American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Latin American Studies, Afro-Hispanic Literature, and History of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries." (Journal of Haitian Studies)

Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo is Associate Professor of English at Vanderbilt University.

• PT. 1. THE MAKING OF A RACE (MAN)1. The view from above: Placido through the eyes of the Cuban colonial government and white abolitionists2. The view from next door: Placido through black abolitionists' eyesPT. 2. BOTH (RACE) AND (NATION)?3. On being black and Cuban: race, nation, and romanticism in the poetry of Placido4. "We intend to stay here": the international shadows in Frederick Douglass's representations of African American community5. "More a Haitian than an American": Frederick Douglass and the black world beyond the United StatesPT. 3. NEGATING NATION, REJECTING RACE6. A slave's cosmopolitanism: Mary Prince, a West Indian slave, and the geography of identity7. Disidentification as identity: Juan Francisco Manzano and the flight from blackness

"Black Cosmopolitanism seeks to tell a story about the complex hemispheric context in which multiple public discourses of blackness emerged in the work of black intellectuals, writing and publishing throughout a nineteenth century shaped by the cataclysmic impact of the Haitian revolution . . . [The book reflects] the richness of new pathways in a hemispheric American studies, moving outward to explore philosophies of race and histories of racial identity that traveled back and forth between colonial and imperial worlds." (American Literature) "Black Cosmopolitanism presents a strong, innovative case for looking back in order to look forward. . . .Nwankwo's book highlights its relevance to a varied cross section of disciplines that include, but are not limited to, African-American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Latin American Studies, Afro-Hispanic Literature, and History of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries." (Journal of Haitian Studies)