Table of Contents

Foreword   ix
Philomena Essed

Preface   xvii
Darlene Clark Hine

Acknowledgments   xxi

Introduction: The Empire Strikes Back   xxiii
Stephen Small

Section1. Historical Dimensions of Blackness in Europe
1. The Emergence of Afro-Europe: A Preliminary Sketch   3
Allison Blakely
2. Blacks in Early Modern Europe: New Research from the Netherlands   29
Dienke Hondius
3. Now You See It, Now You Don't: Josephine Baker's Films of the 1930s and the Problem of Color   48
Eileen Julien
4. Pictures of "US"? Blackness, Diaspora, and the Afro-German Subject   63
Tina M. Campt
5. The Conundrum of Geography, Europe d'outre mer, and Transcontinental Diasporic Identity   84
T. Sharpley-Whiting and Tiffany Ruby Patterson

Section 2. Race and Blackness in Perspective: France, Germany, and Italy
6. "Black (American) Paris" and the French Outer-Cities: The Race Question and Questioning Solidarity   95
Trica Danielle Keaton
7. Black Italia: Contemporary Migrant Writers from Africa   119
Alessandra Di Maio
8. Talking Race in Color-Blind France: Equality Denied, "Blackness" Reclaimed   145
Fred Constant
9. My Volk to Come: Peoplehood in Recent Diaspora Discourse and Afro-German Popular Music   161
Alexander G. Weheliye
10. No Green Pastures: The African Americanization of France   180
Tyler Stovall

Section 3. Theorizing, (Re)presenting, and (Re)imagining Blackness In Europe
11. Black Europe and the African Diaspora: A Discourse on Location   201
Jacqueline Nassy Brown
12. Theorizing Black Europe and African Diaspora: Implications for Citizenship, Nativism, and Xenophobia   212
Kwame Nimako and Stephen Small
13. The Audacious Josephine Baker: Stardom, Cinema, Paris   238
Terri Francis
14. Pale by Comparison: Black Liberal Humanism and the Postwar Era in the African Diaspora   260
Michelle M. Wright
15. Another Dream of a Common Language: Imagining Black Europe...   277
Gloria Wekker

Afterword: Black Europe's Undecidability   291
Barnor Hesse

Notes on Contributors   305
Index   311
 

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Multifaceted analyses of the African diaspora in Europe

About the Author

Darlene Clark Hine is Board of Trustees Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University. Trica Danielle Keaton is an Associate Professor in African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. Stephen Small is an Associate Professor in African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Reviews

"An elegant, imaginative, and penetrating intervention in the ethnographies and theories of race and community in the African diaspora. A masterful contribution to the growing field of Black European studies and to diaspora studies." Mamadou Diouf, co-editor of New Perspectives on Islam in Senegal: Conversion, Migration, Wealth, Power, and Femininity "Enormously stimulating, this volume is essential reading for those interested in exploring the evolving story of the Black presence worldwide."--David Barry Gaspar, co-editor of Beyond Bondage: Free Women of Color in the Americas