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Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora

Dublin, New Orleans, Paris

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Elisa Joy White investigates the contemporary African Diaspora communities in Dublin, New Orleans, and Paris and their role in the interrogation of modernity and social progress. Beginning with an examination of Dublin's emergent African immigrant community, White shows how the community's negotiation of racism, immigration status, and xenophobia exemplifies the ways in which idealist representations of global societies are contradicted by the prevalence of racial, ethnic, and cultural conflicts within them. Through the consideration of three contemporaneous events—the deportations of Nigerians from Dublin, the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, and the uprisings in the Paris suburbs—White reveals a shared quest for social progress in the face of stark retrogressive conditions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-06-11
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieIndiana University Press (IPS)
Antal sidor356
FörlagIndiana University Press
ISBN9780253001252

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AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1. The African Diaspora in Dublin1. Decolonization, Racism, and the Retro-Global Society2. Status, Numbers, and the "Retro" Revealed3. Media Representation and Black Presence4. Racism, Immigrant Status, and Black Life5. A Community in the MakingPart 2. The Glitches of Modernity6. Dublin: The Olukunle Elukanlo Case7. New Orleans: Race Meets Antediluvian Modernity8. Paris: The Liberating Quality of Race9. Conclusion: Toward a Modern FutureNotesReferencesIndex

Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora . . . is a fascinating look at the way racism and social exclusion are still at work in our modern societiesStudents and lecturers/professors will certainly find this book useful as a marker of social attitudes in developed western cities, that presents a desperate contradiction of official Government policy and public proclamation.(readthinkwriteteach.com) Highly recommended.(Choice) White should be applauded for her extensive fieldwork in Europe and North America, where she interviewed hundreds of individuals, mostly new immigrants and asylum seekers, whose accounts made up most of the book's primary research. . . . Modernity, Freedom, and the African Diaspora continues an important conversation on the importance of race and its intersection with modernity in the modern world.(International Social Science Review) What this study accomplishes, and quite successfully, is constructing an important expansion of modernity to make room for the complications of white racism impacting African diasporic communities.(Journal of African American History)