Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture 0295999578, 9780295999579

Migrating the Black Body explores how visual media―from painting to photography, from global independent cinema to Holly

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The Last "Darky": Bert Williams, Black-on-Black Minstrelsy, and the African Diaspora 9780822387060
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Examines the use of Africa as a figure in the Harlem Renaissance and looks at the place of that movement within a wider

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Violence, Visual Culture, and the Black Male Body [1 ed.] 9780203842782, 9780415880428
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From early photographs of disfigured slaves to contemporary representations of bullet-riddled rappers, images of wounded

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Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora 9780822385868
Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora 9780822385868

A theoretical troubling of the assumptions of uniformity in Blackness, comparing writings by and about African diasporic

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Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora 9780812294781
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Kevin Dawson considers how enslaved Africans carried aquatic skills—swimming, diving, boat making, even surfing—to the A

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Making the Black Atlantic: Britain and the African Diaspora 9781474292894, 9781474292917, 9781474292900
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Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity 9780520936409
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The rise of cinema as the predominant American entertainment around the turn of the last century coincided with the migr

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Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture 9781617039478, 9781617031526
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Banning Black Gods: Law and Religions of the African Diaspora 9780271089645
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Banning Black Gods is a global examination of the legal challenges faced by adherents of the most widely practiced Afric

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Black Europe and the African Diaspora [paperback ed.] 0252076575, 9780252076572
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The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and

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The Black Handbook: The People, History and Politics of Africa and the African Diaspora 9781474292863, 9781474292887, 9781474292870
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The Black Handbook is the authoritative guide to the people, history and politics of Africa and the African Diaspora up

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