Problematizing Blackness

Jean Muteba Rahier is an Associate Professor of Anthropology & ANWS, and the ANWS Graduate Director at the Florida International University.Percy C. Hintzen is Chair of African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.

• 1. Introduction:From Structural Politics to the Politics of Deconstruction: Self Ethnographies Problematizing Blackness, Percy Claude Hintzen and Jean Muteba Rahier2. Transnationalism And Racialization Within Contemporary U.S. Immigration, Patricia R. Pessar3. This Prison Called My Skin: On Being Black In America, Olúfémi Táíwò4. Economies of the Interstice, Tejumola Olaniyan5. Oyinbo, Sarah Manyika6. Métis/Mulâtre, Mulato, Mulatto, Negro, Moreno, Mundele Kaki, Black, .: The Wanderings and Meanderings of Identities, Jean Muteba Rahier7. Coming of Age in Creole New Orleans: An Ethnohistory, Felipe Smith8. Whiteness, Desire, Sexuality, And The Production Of Black Subjectivities In British Guiana, Barbados And The United States, Percy C. Hintzen9. Being Black Twice, Carolle Charles10. Afro-Arab-Asian Imaginings , May Joseph11. Anything but Black: Bringing Politics Back to the Study of Race, Pedro NogueraAbout the Contributors