Black Subjects in Africa and Its Diasporas

Race and Gender in Research and Writing
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-29697-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 337 g

Through the research and experiences of 16 scholars whose native homes span ten countries, this collection shifts the discussion of belonging and affinity within Africa and its diaspora toward local perceptions and the ways in which these notions are asserted or altered.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mills, Q.

Talton, B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte Regionalgeschichte der USA: Einzelne Staaten, Städte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Race, Gender and the Research Subject: An Introduction; B.Talton  & Q.T.Mills Researching while Black: Interrogating and Navigating Boundaries of Belonging in the Andes; S.Busdiecker Posing as Subject: Compromise and the Art of Access in Trinidad; H.Neptune Translating Hybrid Cultures: Quandaries of an Indian-Australian Ethnographer in Cuba; S.Fernandes Where to Find Black Identity in Buenos Aires; J.Anderson 'You Don't Look Groomed': Rethinking Black Barber Shops as Public Spaces in the United States; Q.T.Mills The 'Dark Sheep' of the Atlantic World: Following the Transnational Trail of Blacks to Canada; D.J.Broyld The Strange Life of Lusotropicalism in Luanda: On Race, Nationality and Sexuality in Angola; J.Krug Quenching the Thirst for Data: Beer, Local Connections and Fieldwork in Ghana; B.Talton (African-) American Woman Outsider: Nationality, Race and Gender in Field Research in Mozambique; F.Henderson Mamatoma 'The Chief's Namesake': Strategies for Research and Belonging in Sierra Leone; L.R.Day

Über Autor(innen)

BENJAMIN TALTONis an Assistant Professor of History at Temple University, USA.
QUINCY T. MILLS is an Assistant Professor of History at Vassar College, USA.