Transnational Blackness

MANNING MARABLE is Professor of History and Political Science and Director, Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University, USA.   VANESSA AGARD-JONES is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology and French Studies at New York University, USA and Chair of the Board of Directors at the Audre Lorde Project: A Community Organizing Center for LGBTST People of Color in New York City.

• Introduction: Blackness Beyond Boundaries; M.Marable PART I: THEORIZING RACE IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT Race and Globalization: Racialization from Below; L.Mullings Racism in a Time of Terror: Notes from Ground Zero, 2001; M.Marable Global Apartheid, Foreign Policy, and Human Rights; F.V.Harrison The Modern World Racial System; H.Winant The Ongoing Contestation over Nationhood; A.W.Marx PART II: INTERROGATING RACE AND RACISM IN THE AMERICAS A Tale of Two Barrios: Puerto Rican Youth and the Politics of Belonging; G.M.Pérez Reinventing the Jamaican Political System; B.Meeks Afro-Colombia: A Case for Pan-African Analysis; J.Jordan PART III: MUTUAL INSPIRATION: RADICALS IN TRANSNATIONAL SPACE The Havana Afrocubano Movement and the Harlem Renaissance: The Role of the Intellectual in the Formation of Racial and National Identity; R.R.Laremont & L.Yun Eslanda Goode Robeson's African Journey : The Politics of Identification and Representation in the African Diaspora; M.Mahon Du Bois's Double Consciousness versus Latin American Exceptionalism: Joe Arroyo, Salsa, and Negritude; M.Q.Sawyer 'Long Live Third World Unity! Long Live Internationalism': Huey P. Newton's Revolutionary Intercommunalism; B.Rodriguez 'A Free Black Mind is a Concealed Weapon': Institutions and Social Movements in the African Diaspora; R.Hayes PART IV: EUROPE AND ASIA ON THE COLOR LINE Tokyo Bound: African Americans and Japan Confront White Supremacy; G.Horne Whiting, Femme Negritude: Jane Nardal, La Depeche Africaine, and the Francophone New Negro; T.D.Sharpley In Denial: Racial Profiling in Europe; C.Lusane PART V: CRAFTING RESISTANCE: IDENTITY, NARRATIVE, AND AGENCY Salvaging Lives in the African Diaspora: Anthropology, Ethnography, and Women's Narratives; I.McClaurin Going Back To Our Own: Interpreting Malcolm X's Transition From 'Black Asiatic' to 'Afro-American'; L.Mazucci Linking African And Asian in Passing And Passage; L.Yun Out of Chaos: Afro-Colombian Peace Communities and the Realities of War; A.Angel-Ajani PART VI: RE/TURNING (TO) THE SOURCE: RACE AND POWER IN AFRICA African American Expatriates in Ghana and the Black Radical Tradition; K.K.Gaines 'Crimes of History': Senegalese Soccer and the Forensics of Slavery; M.Ralph Nuclear Imperialism and the Pan-African Struggle for Peace and Freedom: Ghana, 1959-1962; J.Allman