Jean Muteba Rahier is an associate professor of anthropology and the director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at Florida International University. He is the coeditor, with Percy C. Hintzen, of Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States. Percy C. Hintzen is a professor of African American Studies and the chair of the Center for African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of West Indians in the West: Self Representations in a Migrant Community. Felipe Smith is an associate professor of English at Tulane University and the author of American Body Politics: Race, Gender, and Black Literary Renaissance.

• Preface and Acknowledgments   viiIntroduction. Theorizing the African Diaspora: Metaphor, Miscognition, and Self-Recognition   ixPercy C. Hintzen and Jean Muteba RahierI. Practices of Exclusion and Misrecognition1. The African Diaspora as Imagined Community   3Felipe Smith2. The Ecuadorian Victories in the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the Ideological Biology of (Non-) Citizenship   29Jean Muteba RahierII. The Emergence of Diasporic Consciousness3. Race and Diasporic Imaginings among West Indians in the San Francisco Bay Area   49Percy C. Hintzen4. Continuity, Change, and Authenticity in Toronto's 1990 Caribana Concert   74Lyndon Phillip5. Rethinking the African Diaspora and HIV/AIDS Prevention from the Perspective of Ballroom Culture   96Marlon M. Bailey6. Remapping South African and African American Cultural Imaginaries   127Stephane Robolin7. Amy Jacques Garvey, Theodore Bilbo, and the Paradoxes of Black Nationalism   152Reena N. Goldthree8. Diaspora Homecoming, Vodun Ancestry, and the Ambiguities of Transnational Belongings in the Republic of Benin   174Jung Ran Forte9. Somos Negros Finos: Anglophone Caribbean Cultural Citizenship in Revolutionary Cuba   201Andrea QueeleyReferences   223Contributors   255Index   258

"Global Circuits of Blackness pushes the envelope on the theorizing of race in an interconnected global network. The editors have assembled a fresh intervention on the politics of globalization by synthesizing eras of black cultural theory with the pressures of contemporary global displacements."--May Joseph, author of Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship

Jean Muteba Rahier is an associate professor of anthropology and the director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at Florida International University. He is the coeditor, with Percy C. Hintzen, of Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States. Percy C. Hintzen is a professor of African American Studies and the chair of the Center for African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of West Indians in the West: Self Representations in a Migrant Community. Felipe Smith is an associate professor of English at Tulane University and the author of American Body Politics: Race, Gender, and Black Literary Renaissance.

• Preface and Acknowledgments   viiIntroduction. Theorizing the African Diaspora: Metaphor, Miscognition, and Self-Recognition   ixPercy C. Hintzen and Jean Muteba RahierI. Practices of Exclusion and Misrecognition1. The African Diaspora as Imagined Community   3Felipe Smith2. The Ecuadorian Victories in the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the Ideological Biology of (Non-) Citizenship   29Jean Muteba RahierII. The Emergence of Diasporic Consciousness3. Race and Diasporic Imaginings among West Indians in the San Francisco Bay Area   49Percy C. Hintzen4. Continuity, Change, and Authenticity in Toronto's 1990 Caribana Concert   74Lyndon Phillip5. Rethinking the African Diaspora and HIV/AIDS Prevention from the Perspective of Ballroom Culture   96Marlon M. Bailey6. Remapping South African and African American Cultural Imaginaries   127Stephane Robolin7. Amy Jacques Garvey, Theodore Bilbo, and the Paradoxes of Black Nationalism   152Reena N. Goldthree8. Diaspora Homecoming, Vodun Ancestry, and the Ambiguities of Transnational Belongings in the Republic of Benin   174Jung Ran Forte9. Somos Negros Finos: Anglophone Caribbean Cultural Citizenship in Revolutionary Cuba   201Andrea QueeleyReferences   223Contributors   255Index   258

"Global Circuits of Blackness pushes the envelope on the theorizing of race in an interconnected global network. The editors have assembled a fresh intervention on the politics of globalization by synthesizing eras of black cultural theory with the pressures of contemporary global displacements."--May Joseph, author of Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship

Jean Muteba Rahier is an associate professor of anthropology and the director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program at Florida International University. He is the coeditor, with Percy C. Hintzen, of Problematizing Blackness: Self Ethnographies by Black Immigrants to the United States. Percy C. Hintzen is a professor of African American Studies and the chair of the Center for African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of West Indians in the West: Self Representations in a Migrant Community. Felipe Smith is an associate professor of English at Tulane University and the author of American Body Politics: Race, Gender, and Black Literary Renaissance.

• Preface and Acknowledgments   viiIntroduction. Theorizing the African Diaspora: Metaphor, Miscognition, and Self-Recognition   ixPercy C. Hintzen and Jean Muteba RahierI. Practices of Exclusion and Misrecognition1. The African Diaspora as Imagined Community   3Felipe Smith2. The Ecuadorian Victories in the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the Ideological Biology of (Non-) Citizenship   29Jean Muteba RahierII. The Emergence of Diasporic Consciousness3. Race and Diasporic Imaginings among West Indians in the San Francisco Bay Area   49Percy C. Hintzen4. Continuity, Change, and Authenticity in Toronto's 1990 Caribana Concert   74Lyndon Phillip5. Rethinking the African Diaspora and HIV/AIDS Prevention from the Perspective of Ballroom Culture   96Marlon M. Bailey6. Remapping South African and African American Cultural Imaginaries   127Stephane Robolin7. Amy Jacques Garvey, Theodore Bilbo, and the Paradoxes of Black Nationalism   152Reena N. Goldthree8. Diaspora Homecoming, Vodun Ancestry, and the Ambiguities of Transnational Belongings in the Republic of Benin   174Jung Ran Forte9. Somos Negros Finos: Anglophone Caribbean Cultural Citizenship in Revolutionary Cuba   201Andrea QueeleyReferences   223Contributors   255Index   258

"Global Circuits of Blackness pushes the envelope on the theorizing of race in an interconnected global network. The editors have assembled a fresh intervention on the politics of globalization by synthesizing eras of black cultural theory with the pressures of contemporary global displacements."--May Joseph, author of Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship